Today Westbrook is a quiet Long Island Sound town of about seven thousand — salt marshes and a common river mouth, masts in the harbor, the town green on the old Boston Post Road, and the Town Center Historic District that records three centuries of shoreline New England. Bushnell's name is still remembered here, in a memorial house near the village.
Westbrook holds two stories at once: a working shoreline town on the salt marshes of Long Island Sound, and the unlikely birthplace of an invention that changed the sea. Our Westbrook designs gather that identity — the oyster-and-1636 emblem, the Sound shoreline, and the Turtle's quiet claim to history — into wearable form. Westbrook, Connecticut — birthplace of the world's first submarine, on the salt marshes of Long Island Sound since 1648.
Why People Visit Westbrook
Westbrook offers quiet shoreline New England with a remarkable story beneath it. Visitors come for the beaches, the marsh and harbor, the historic town center, and the distinction of standing in the birthplace of the submarine. It's low-key, scenic, and steeped in Long Island Sound maritime heritage.
