What they gave us

Naval Submarine Base New London is the primary U.S. Navy East Coast submarine base. It’s directly across the Thames River from its namesake city of New London. All U.S. subs are nuclear-powered.

“New Englanders gave us codfish and quahogs and atomic submarines. They gave us the America’s Cup races and Waltham Watches, town meetings and mill towns, village greens and fall colors.’’

— Ted Smart and David Gibbon, in New England: A Picture Book to Remember Her By

The Waltham Watch Company made about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time-delay fuses and other precision instruments between 1850 and 1957. The company's 19th-Century manufacturing facilities, in Waltham, Mass., have been preserved as the American Waltham Watch Company Historic District.