4.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.9% of those under age 18 and 5.3% of those age 65 or over. Education Plymouth is served by the Plymouth Public Schools District. There are four schools in the district and students attend Terryville High School. Transportation The town is served by U.S. Route 6, Connecticut Route 72, and Connecticut Route 262. Route 6 passes through Terryville and Plymouth Center, leading east through Bristol to Hartford, the state capital, and west through Thomaston to Watertown. Route 72 least southeast to Bristol and north to Harwinton, while Route 262 south and west via a circuitous route to Oakville and Watertown. Notable people Judson Allen (1797–1880), United States congressman from New York Dorence Atwater (1845–1910), soldier who recorded 13,000 soldiers' deaths while he was a prisoner during the American Civil War; later a consul at Tahiti A monument honoring Atwater is on a hill overlooking Baldwin Park Moses Dunbar (1716–1777), the only person ever convicted of high treason in the state of Connecticut; lived in Plymouth and Bristol at the time Henry Dutton (1796–1869), 38th governor of Connecticut Calista Flockhart (born 1964), actress; family still lives in Todd Hollow Silas Hoadley (1786–1870), a clockmaker who learned from Eli Terry; owned his own clock factory in the Greystone section of town Ted Knight (1923–1986), actor from Terryville Frederick A. Scott (1866–1957), United States attorney for the district of Connecticut from Terryville Eli Terry (1772–1852), resident, clockmaker References Further reading History of the town of Plymouth, Connecticut: with an account of the centennial celebration May 14 and 15, 1895, published by Journal Pub. Co. in 1895 External links Town of Plymouth official website Terryville Public Library Plymouth Public Schools City-Data.com ePodunk: Profile for Plymouth, Connecticut Towns in Litchfield County, Connecticut Towns in the New York metropolitan area Towns in Connecticut 1795 establishments in the United States