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Noank ( NOH-ink) is a village in the town of Groton, Connecticut. This dense community of historic homes and local businesses sits on a small, steep peninsula at the mouth of the Mystic River in the same way as a long tradition of fishing, lobstering and boat-building. The village is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places and is the house of compound seaside lobster shacks and oyster aquaculture operations. The population was 1,796 at the 2010 census.

In 1614, the area was known as Nauyang (meaning “point of land”) and was a summer camping dome of the Pequot people, but they were driven out in 1655 behind the Pequot War. The estate comprising Noank Peninsula was acquired by James Morgan through a lottery in 1712.

The community grew from a tradition of fishing, lobstering, and boat-building. In 1861, Charles Mallory and Elihu Spicer, Jr. established the C. H. Mallory and Company Steamship line. In 1879, Robert Palmer put steam railways into his shipbuilding plant in Noank. His company became one of the largest in the United States at the mature for making wooden ships, building one thousand vessels ranging from fishing boats to hermetic steamers. The fishing sailboat type known as the “Noank Smack” is original to this village, such as the Emma C. Berry preserved at the Mystic Seaport. Around 1912, the Connecticut State Lobster Hatchery was received in Noank. Today, the village has several marinas, including one gone 158 slips.