If you grew up in East Lyme, or you’ve spent a summer day on the sand at Rocky Neck, you’ll find your town on this map just as it stands in 2026. Look for your road. The Boston Post Road, Main Street, West Main Street, Flanders Road, Chesterfield Road, North Bride Brook Road, Society Road, West Society Road, Roxbury Road, Old Black Point Road, Giants Neck Road and Grassy Hill Road are all printed by name, along with many more.
East Lyme is in New London County, on Long Island Sound in southeastern Connecticut.
KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data, and gave it the look of an old atlas. The shaded ground, from the woods of Flanders down to the shore at Black Point, comes from United States Geological Survey elevation data. The streets and the town line come from the Census Bureau, right down to small roads like Upper Fourmile River Road. Niantic, Flanders, Giants Neck, Black Point and Attawan Beach are printed by name, and so are the Niantic River and Long Island Sound. A guide of 34 numbered landmarks runs along the bottom, with the National Register sites marked, and we checked those against National Park Service records.
Two Villages, Flanders and Niantic
East Lyme was formed from parts of Lyme and Waterford and incorporated as a town in 1839. That’s the year on the title panel: Incorporated 1839. The town has two villages, Flanders in the north and Niantic along the coast. Niantic takes its name from the Niantic, or Nehantic, people, whose lands once reached from Wecapaug Brook, in what is now Rhode Island, to the Connecticut River.
Flanders began as a farming area along the old Post Road, and its name comes from woolen mills like those in Flanders, in Belgium. Until the early 1800s it was the center of town life, with dozens of homes, shops and inns along the Boston Post Road. George Washington stopped at the Caulkins Tavern there with thousands of troops in 1776. Fishing, shipyards and quarries were the main work in town until the railroad came through in 1851. Up to then the shore was known as “The Bank,” and the railroad drew people to it. East Lyme’s beaches became a place for summer homes and recreation, and they still are. Click here to learn more about the history of East Lyme.
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Names on this map
These names are printed on this map.
Places: Chesterfield, Amtrak Beach, Attawan Beach, Black Point Beach Club, Bride Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, Cini Memorial Park, Crescent Beach, Crescent Park, East Lyme Town Hall, Flanders School, Fourmile River, Giants Neck Beach, Golden Spur, Harbor Hill Marina, Hole-in-the-Wall Beach, McCook Park Beach, McCook Point Park, Nehantic Nature Preserve, Niantic Center School, Oswegatchie Hills Nature Preserve, Pattagansett Marshes, Pine Grove, Rocky Neck Pavilion, Rocky Neck State Beach, Rocky Neck State Park, Saunders Point, Silver Falls and Veterans Memorial Field.
Streets and roads: Hill Rd, Boston St, River Rd, Brook Rd, Golden Spr, Society Rd, Ancient Hwy, Crescent Beach Rd, Roxbury Rd, Main St, Sleepy Hollow Rd, Point Rd.
More street names, A to Z
Old Black Point Rd.
Niantic
The cluster of numbers on Niantic Bay is downtown Niantic. East Lyme Town Hall (6) and Niantic Center School (7) are here, along with the Niantic Community Church (14), Saint John’s Episcopal Church (15) and Saint Agnes Catholic Church (31). So is the Niantic Children’s Museum (13), which the guide lists a second time as (30). Veterans Memorial Field (27) and the Oswegatchie Hills Nature Preserve (17) are a little inland.
Along the water are Harbor Hill Marina (20), McCook Point Park (21) and Hole-in-the-Wall Beach (26). The Niantic Bay Boardwalk runs for a mile beside the shoreline railroad tracks, from the mouth of the Niantic River to Hole-in-the-Wall. The village’s beach communities include Attawan Beach, Black Point, Crescent Beach and Giants Neck Beach, and the guide lists Crescent Beach (2), Attawan Beach (18), Giants Neck Beach (3), Cini Memorial Park (4), McCook Park Beach (5) and Amtrak Beach (1).
Rocky Neck State Park
Rocky Neck State Park (8) covers 710 acres on Long Island Sound, with a white sand beach and boardwalk, a tidal river and a broad salt marsh. Fertilizer works used the site in the 1800s. Conservationists bought the land in 1931 and held it until the state could buy it. Rocky Neck State Beach (10) is the park’s long white beach, and the campground has 160 sites.
The Rocky Neck Pavilion (24) is a curved building of timber and granite, more than 350 feet long, that Works Progress Administration crews finished in 1936. It was built to ease crowding at Hammonasset State Park, and its supporting pillars were cut from trees in each of the state parks and forests. It’s the largest Depression-era structure in the state, and it opened as the Ellie Mitchell Pavilion, with dining areas and eight fireplaces. It was listed on the National Register in 1986. The Bride Brook Wildlife Sanctuary (16) is nearby.
Black Point and the Gorton Farm
Near the Pattagansett Marshes (22), at Black Point, the William Gorton Farm (9) was farmed from the late 1600s into the early 1900s. Christopher Christophers bought a large tract on Black Point in 1686. Robert Gorton bought the land in 1817, and in 1858 a dock was built to load hay for ships bound for the West Indies. Colonel Norman J. Bond bought the farm in 1874 and started Black Point Cottages, a summer resort, on part of it. By the 1880s the southern tip of Black Point was a summer colony of well-to-do New Yorkers. The farmhouse, two barns and a blacksmith shop still stand, and the farm was listed on the National Register in 1984.
Flanders and the Hunting Lodge
The heart of Flanders is Flanders Four Corners, where Chesterfield Road meets the Boston Post Road. East Lyme High School (25), Flanders School (19) and the East Lyme Post Office (23) are in this part of town. The East Lyme Public Library (11) is on Society Road, away from Niantic, close to East Lyme Middle School (12), the East Lyme Community Center (32) and the East Lyme Public Safety Building (33).
In the woods of western East Lyme is the Morton Freeman Plant Hunting Lodge (34). The financier Morton Freeman Plant built it in 1908 as the heart of a private game preserve that grew to about 2,400 acres, which he stocked with game birds. The bungalow-style lodge was designed by Dudley St. Clair Donnelly, and it’s one of the only early 20th-century purpose-built hunting lodges in the state. It was listed on the National Register in 1988. The Nehantic Nature Preserve (29) is in the far north of town, and the guide also lists the East Lyme Probate Court (28).
This map of East Lyme makes a handsome addition to a living room, office, library or den, and it can even help teach children the geography and history of the town. It’s a thoughtful gift for anyone who calls East Lyme home, grew up here, or moved away. Created by KNOWOL in 2026, it’s printed on museum quality archival paper in three sizes. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the East Lyme map.
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