New London Customhouse is a historic customs house at 150 Bank Street in New London, Connecticut

New London, Connecticut

New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States.It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, southeastern Connecticut....

. It was built in 1833 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

The New London Maritime Society operates the site as the Custom House Maritime Museum, with exhibits including New London's maritime history, ship models, the ship La Amistad

La Amistad

La Amistad was a ship notable as the scene of a revolt by African captives being transported from Havana to Puerto Principe, Cuba. It was a 19th-century two-masted schooner built in Spain and owned by a Spaniard living in Cuba...

, the history of the customs

Customs

Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods including animals, transports, personal effects and hazardous items in and out of a country...

 building and current custom operations, and regional lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....

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The Society also owns the New London Harbor Light

New London Harbor Light

New London Harbor Light is a lighthouse in Connecticut,United States, on the west side of the New London harbor entrance, Connecticut. It is the nation's fifth oldest light station and the seventh oldest U.S...

, and plans to operate tours of the lighthouse beginning in 2011.

External links

• Custom House Maritime Museum - official site