Old Wethersfield

The Largest Historic District In Connecticut, Around 1,100 Buildings Across More Than A Square Mile; Settled 1634 And The Site Of The 1781 Conference At Which Washington And Rochambeau Planned The Yorktown Campaign · Wethersfield, Connecticut

Wethersfield was settled in 1634, claims to be Connecticut's oldest town, and grew rich on onions and the West Indies trade before the river silted and the railroads went elsewhere. What is left is the largest historic district in the state - around eleven hundred buildings over more than a square mile, with well over a hundred predating 1850 - arranged around a green and a broad Main Street that has barely changed shape in three centuries. The set piece is the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, three neighbouring houses shown as one: in the Webb House in May 1781 Washington and Rochambeau spent five days planning the campaign that ended at Yorktown. Wethersfield Cove, the old port, is now a quiet inlet with a 1690s warehouse on it, and the town is fifteen minutes from downtown Hartford, which nobody expects of somewhere that looks like deep country. The Webb-Deane-Stevens houses are seasonal and guided; the streets, the green and the cove are free and open all year.

211 Main Street, Wethersfield, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 06109, United States

The district is a living town and its streets, the green and the cove are open at all hours, free. The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, which is the three historic houses on Main Street, keeps seasonal hours - generally spring to autumn with reduced or weekend-only opening either side and closed for much of the winter - and the houses are seen on a guided tour. Shops and restaurants keep their own hours and several close on Mondays.

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