Mine Cove

Mine Cove is a bay in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Mine Cove is situated nearby to the suburb Lords Point, as well as near the locality Wamphassuc Point.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House and Mystic Seaport Marine Museum.

Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House

Museum

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The Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House is a historic house museum in Stonington, Connecticut, built in 1852–54. The house is a transitional style between the Greek Revival and the Victorian Italianate. Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House is situated 1½ miles east of Mine Cove.

Mystic Seaport Marine Museum

Theme park

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Mystic Seaport Museum is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and the largest in the United States. Its 19-acre site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport village consisting of more than 60 historic buildings, including many rare commercial structures that were moved to the site and meticulously restored. Mystic Seaport Marine Museum is situated 2 miles northwest of Mine Cove.

Mystic station

Railway station

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Mystic station is an intercity train station on the Northeast Corridor, located off Roosevelt Avenue east of downtown Mystic, Connecticut. It is served by a limited number of trains on Amtrak's Northeast Regional service, with three to five daily trains in each direction.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lords Point and Stonington.

Lords Point

Suburb

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Lords Point is a small private village on the Atlantic Coast in the town of Stonington, Connecticut, United States, established in 1909. Lords Point has over 200 houses and summer cottages, with an average summer population of 800 people.

Stonington

Town

Stonington is a borough and the town center of Stonington, Connecticut, United States, referred to by locals as "The Borough". The population was 976 at the 2020 United States Census, up from 929 in 2010. Stonington is situated 1½ miles east of Mine Cove.

Stonington

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Stonington is a town located on Long Island Sound in New London County, Connecticut. The municipal limits of the town include the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck, Lords Point, and Wequetequock, and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic.

Mine Cove

Type: Bay
Category: body of water
Location: Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.34093° or 41° 20′ 27″ north

Longitude

-71.93757° or 71° 56′ 15″ west

Elevation

30 feet (9 metres)

Open location code

87HC83R6+9X

GeoNames ID

4838769

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