Williams Beach Park

Williams Beach Park is a beach in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Williams Beach Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Mystic Bridge Historic District, as well as near the hamlet Quiambaug.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mystic station and Mystic Museum of Art.

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.

Mystic Museum of Art

Museum

Mystic Museum of Art is a museum of American art at 9 Water Street in Mystic, Connecticut. The Mystic Art Association, an organization of artists who painted in the seacoast town, was founded by Charles Harold Davis in 1913.

Mystic Seaport Marine Museum

Theme park

Photo: Joethon, Public domain.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mystic and Mystic Bridge Historic District.

Mystic

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Mystic is a village that is partly in Groton and partly in Stonington in Connecticut. It is a major tourist destination.

Mystic Bridge Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Mystic Bridge Historic District is a historic district in the village of Mystic, Connecticut on the Stonington side of the Mystic River. It includes the Mystic Seaport Museum, whose grounds and floating vessels represent the area's history, and the 1924 Mystic River Bascule Bridge.

Mystic River Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Mystic River Historic District encompasses the part of the village of Mystic, Connecticut that is on the Groton side of the Mystic River. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 24, 1979, approximately 235-acre which includes much of the village of West Mystic and many buildings from the 19th century.

Williams Beach Park

Type: Beach
Also known as: “Williams Beach”
Category: landform
Location: Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.34556° or 41° 20′ 44″ north

Longitude

-71.95978° or 71° 57′ 35″ west

Open location code

87HC82WR+63

OpenStreetMap ID

way 549631773

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=beach

GeoNames ID

4845807

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