Demolition has begun at Fort Trumbull in New London. The homes which owners fought to keep for more than five years are now being reduced to rubble.

These were the last homes still standing on the New London peninsula, an area slated for redevelopment back in 2000. Just a handful remained from the more than one hundred homes which once stood in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood.

Last year the final property owners reached agreements with the city after losing a fight which brought them all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

One home has been knocked down. Others remain boarded up, their windows and other salvageable material already removed.

Today stones from a foundation were carted off by a stone mason who has his new plans for them.

"We reuse a lot of this old granite 'cause you can't find it," mason Louis Consolini said. "Nowadays they cut all the granite with a saw and this old granite was cut the old fashioned way. You could picture the old guys doing this a hundred years ago. Drilling it. They wedge it. Pieces actually flop apart. So it's pretty neat. It's got a little bit of historical value to it too."

The next home is slated to be knocked down sometime next week