The Thomas Lee house is the oldest home in Connecticut that is maintained in its original state, circa 1660. This building is located in the southwestern section of East Lyme, adjacent to Rocky Neck State Park, at the intersection of Connecticut Route 156 and Giants Neck Road. Co-Located on this site is the one room 'Little Boston Schoolhouse" which was relocated from across CT Route 156. Town features no less than 6 homes from 1699 or earlier and the Old Stone Church Burial Ground from 1719 located off Society & Riverview Roads. Originally inhabited by the Nehantic Indians with villages in the modern day Indian Woods section as well as on Black Point, McCooks Beach area and near the Niantic River. Allied with the colonists in the 1636 war against the Pequot Indians the Nehantic eventually died out in the mid 1800s. The 1750s map of Ezra Stiles shows the village in modern day Indian Woods of the Nehantic people as was described as "12 or 13 huts". East Lyme then a part of Lyme had severals Taverns which offered stopping places for travelers such as Sarah Kemble Knight. These included Calkins Tavern on modern day Boston Post Rd, Royce's Tavern, & Taber Tavern near modern day I-95. No less than 23 Revolutionary War Veterans are buried within the borders of East Lyme and countless more found resting places in upstate NY, New Hampshire and Ohio. Moses Warren friend of Samuel Holden Parsons (General) from Lyme and Moses Cleveland set out to survey the Ohio Territory in the latter part of the 1790s and has Warren County Ohio named after him. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Lyme%2C_Connecticut