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Weekend: Old Wethersfield, CT
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For a "Yankee Classic" story on the history and culture of Old Wethersfield, go to: Wethersfield and Onions.
River Loop Drive
From Main Street, head east on Hart or Marsh Street (going back toward I-91). Turn to go under the highway, and at the T intersection, turn right to continue on Great Meadow Road. Follow it past fields to an intersection with a road on the right (Second Lane, but there's no street sign). Turn there and follow along the river and through farmland for several miles. (To stay near the river, you'll turn left at Elm Street Extension, which becomes Meadow Road.) This byway emerges at the Rocky Hill-Glastonbury Ferry. Continue to the intersection with Glastonbury Avenue (Route 160) and turn right. Turn right again at Silas Deane Highway (Route 99). Go about three miles to the light at Wells Road (Route 175). Turn right and follow a half mile back to Main Street in Old Wethersfield.
When You Go
Silas W. Robbins House Bed & Breakfast, 185 Broad St. 860-571-8733; silaswrobbins.com
Spicy Green Bean Deli, 285 Main St. 860-563-3100; spicygreenbean.com
Main Street Creamery & Café, 271 Main St. 860-529-0509; mainstreetcreamery.com
Comstock, Ferre & Co., 263 Main St. 800-733-3773, 860-571-6590; comstockferre.com
Ancient Burying Ground, 250 Main St. (behind First Church of Christ) 860-721-2838, 860-529-7656; historicwethersfield.org, wethhist.org
Wethersfield Museum, Keeney Memorial Cultural Center, 200 Main St. 860-529-7161, wethhist.org
Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, 211 Main St. 860-529-0612; webb-deane-stevens.org
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