Groton Iron Works jobs were as easily lost as gotten

Carol W. Kimball

History of Pfizer's prime site on the Thames
steel freighters and financier Charles S. Morse
Groton Iron Works
Eastern Point School

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Scrapbook

8: Communication Artifact

Documentary Artifact

The Day

New London, CT

10/17/2002

Carol W. Kimball

Financier Charles S. Morse developed the Groton Iron Works shipyard on the Henry C. Rowe estate at Eastern Point which he purchased in 1916. He also took over the oldl Palmer shipyard in Noank. Known as the "Little Napolean" of business genius, Morse constructed nine steel freighters, too late for the war, which included vessels such as the Tolland and the Worcester. The Iron Works was consigned to bankruptcy and his conglomerate, the United States Steamship Company, went into receivership. But the Iron Works had attracted enough people to build the Eastern Point School and the prime site on the Groton bank of the Thames, now occupied by the Pfizer plant, became the site for the Victory Yard of the Electric Boat Company and before that, the Atlantic fisheries.

Morse, Charles S.
Rowe, Henry C.
Cutler, O. E.
Morse, Benjamin
Morse, Erwin
Morse, Harry

Pfizer
prime site on the Thames
Victory Yard of the Electric Boat Company
Atlantic fisheries
Groton Iron Works
Henry C. Rowe estate
Palmer Shipyard
steel freighters
steel steamers
Tolland
Worcester
United States Steamship Company
Eastern Point School