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This page has been visited times. The town of Old Lyme in Southeast Connecticut's New London County lies on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Bordered by the towns of East Lyme and Lyme, and covers 27.1 square miles of shoreline, tide marsh, inland wetlands and beautiful views of the Connecticut River and Long Island Sounds. Lyme has a population of about 6,770 residents that swells in the summer months with the influx of tourists looking for relief from city heat. Old Lyme was set off from Saybrook on February 13, 1665.