Stonington is situated in New London Country, Connecticut with a total population of 17, 1906 in the current 2008 census. It includes the borough of Stonington, Pawcatuck Village, Quiambaug, and Lords Point, Wequetequock, Mystic village and the old Mystic. Pequots belong to the first European Colonists who came to the town in 1649.

It was named as Souther Towne in Massachusetts by the year 1658 and later change to Stonington when the Connecticut established its claim over the territory in the year 1665. In 1724, the town of North Stonington was set off as a parish from Stonington and assimilated as town in 1807. Stonington first gained wealth in the year 1790s.

The first lighthouse that was established by the U.S federal Government in 1823 was the Stonington Harbor Light. In July 1852, the New London and Stonington Railroad Company was incorporated. And in recent decades they experienced a large progress in the economy.