Name/Title
Midway Yard, 1983Entry/Object ID
2026.040.116Description
Collection of 5 black and white photographs of the Midway Yard at Poquonnock Bridge, photographed by Robert Patterson, January 1983. Includes views of the overgrown tracks, remnants of the roundhouse and the foundation of the engine house.Photograph Details
Subject Place
Location
Midway Yard, GrotonNeighborhood
Poquonnock BridgeContext
The Midway Yard was built in 1904 by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, roughly "midway" between Boston and New York. It was located at the junction of the "Old Groton Main" and the Thames River Bridge Extension just east of the Poquonnock River (at the northern edge of present day Bluff Point State Park). At its peak, the yard had a large roundhouse, turntable, boiler house, blacksmith shop, icing facilities, sand houses, bunk houses and a hotel. Use of the yard began to decline in the late 1920s and it was deactivated in the early 1930s.Collection
Carol Kimball CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2026.040Source or Donor
Carol KimballAcquisition Method
TransferLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsProvenance
Notes
Part of a collection of records collected by Carol Kimball during her tenure as the Town of Groton Historian; given to the Groton Historical Society following her death; stored for several years at the Avery Copp Museum; donated to the Groton Public Library 2026Copyright
Copyright Holder
The DayCopyright Date
1983Restrictions
For research use only, permission for reproduction should be addressed to Robert Patterson and The Day.
