Longfellow's Wayside Inn, Sudbury

Our fourth and final stop was Longfellow's Wayside Inn, which dates to the early 1700's and is the original building.  You can still stay there and the downstairs is a restaurant in all the different rooms.  It's quite lovely. So was the foliage.

Barn across from the Inn.

Inside the barn.

I believe George Washington and probably some of his men stopped here.

I never read this book but maybe I will now that I've been here.  However, to be honest, I find almost all 'classic literature', both American and British, to be extremely boring and dry. 

There is one room downstairs where you can view period pieces as it looked in colonial times.

This is upstairs.  I assume this is a function room and still in use.

Sitting room for overnight guests on the second floor.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is an embroidery of the beginning of the Revolutionary War which of course started in this area.

 

The workmanship was amazing.

Behind the inn.

Saw this in town on the way out of Sudbury and thought it was a cool looking building.  That's the reflection of Russell's hand on the steering wheel.  😁

 We pulled over so I could get some shots of this tree.  It was gorgeous.

Reservoir across the street.

Foliage on the way home

 

I give this part of Sudbury two thumbs up.  It's beautiful and quite a sight in the fall.

Martha Mary Chapel & Mary Had a Little Lamb Schoolhouse, Sudbury

Across the street from the grist mill is the Martha Mary Chapel.  New England has the most beautiful old chapels and churches I have ever seen.  

It looks striking against the bright blue sky.

Again, Russell waiting patiently for me in the car.  He was the smart one....he was nice and cool.  I was sweating to death.  😎

There is also a very old schoolhouse next to the chapel.  It's also known as the "Mary Had A Little Lamb Schoolhouse" as the rhyme was written here.  I did not know that!!!!!! 

I assume that's the outhouse but I didn't go look.

There is a metal plaque of an old reader book with Mary Had A Little Lamb.

I will have to go back in the summer and see if the building is open.

Longfellow's Wayside Inn Grist Mill, Sudbury

The day after our trip to Wellfleet, we decided to head up to the town of Sudbury so that I could knock a few more things off my bucket list.  It was a very warm and humid day....hopefully the last one for the year.  The foliage has been spotty but it was very pretty the day we went.  

This is along I-495.

Our first stop was at Longfellow's Wayside Inn Grist Mill.  I honestly never read anything by him unless forced to in high school English, but apparently he wrote 'Tales from the Wayside Inn'.  This grist mill is down the street from the Inn and was built in 1929.  It was the first of four stops on my itinerary.

It's extremely picturesque.  I don't know if they still use the waterwheel, but it wasn't operating that day.

Russell poked around a bit but returned to the car to sit in the a/c while I walked all over the property, up to the Mill Pond above. 

At the top of the mill above the waterfall.

Mill pond.