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Founded in 1634, Wethersfield calls itself Connecticut's most ancient town, and few places in New England keep their colonial past so intact. Old Wethersfield, the historic core, holds well over a hundred houses built before 1850 along tree-lined Main Street and the long Broad Street Green, just south of Hartford.
The town grew rich shipping onions, grain and timber from its river cove, and its merchants built fine houses. In May 1781 George Washington met the Comte de Rochambeau at the Webb House to plan the campaign that ended at Yorktown. The Buttolph-Williams House inspired the setting of the novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Visitors can tour three historic houses in one visit, browse heirloom seeds at a seed company founded in 1820, and walk to the quiet cove where an early warehouse still stands. Hartford's museums and Rocky Hill's dinosaur tracks are each about 10 minutes away.
Three neighboring 18th-century houses on Main Street shown on guided tours. In the Webb House, Washington and Rochambeau planned the Yorktown campaign in 1781; the Deane and Stevens houses show merchant and craftsman life. Tours last about an hour; the colonial revival garden is lovely in June.
A dark-clapboard house built around 1711, one of the best-preserved early colonial homes in New England, with a huge hearth kitchen and period furnishings. It inspired the setting of the children's novel The Witch of Blackbird Pond. It opens on seasonal tours run by the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum.
A former school building on Main Street that now serves as the Wethersfield Historical Society's visitor center and museum. Exhibits trace the town from its founding through its onion-growing and river-trade days. Stop here first for maps, walking tour information and tickets to the society's historic houses.
A quiet cove off the Connecticut River that was once the town's busy port. The Cove Warehouse, built around 1690, is the last of several waterfront warehouses that survived a great flood. Today the park has a boat launch, benches and good spots to watch herons and sunsets over the water.
A long, grassy town green lined with elms, maples and historic houses, used for grazing and militia drills in colonial times. Today it hosts summer concerts, craft fairs and the Memorial Day parade and reenactments. It is a pleasant, flat place for a stroll between visits to the house museums on Main Street.
Wethersfield's largest town park, with a pond for fishing, wooded walking trails, playgrounds, sports fields and a summer swimming pool. In winter the pond is used for skating when the ice is safe. It is a good break from history for families, and parking is easy off Prospect Street.
A brick meetinghouse completed in the 1760s with a tall white steeple, home to a congregation gathered in the 1630s. George Washington attended services here in 1781. The adjacent Ancient Burying Ground has gravestones from the 1600s with carved death heads and cherubs worth a slow look.
Founded in 1820 and long counted among the oldest continuously operating seed companies in the country, this shop sells heirloom vegetable and flower seeds from historic buildings in the old town. Browse old seed displays, garden goods and plants. Spring is the busiest and most colorful season to visit.
Connecticut's largest historic district wraps around Main Street, Broad Street and the cove, with saltbox and Georgian houses, many marked with their construction dates. Walking tour maps are available at the Keeney Center. Allow an hour or two, and look for the old houses on Hartford Avenue and Marsh Street.
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