*This Museum IS NOT Participating in Museum Day 2011*
72 Wayside Inn Road
Sudbury, MA 01776
(978) 443-1776
Longfellow's Wayside Inn Website »
Longfellow's Wayside Inn is a 120-acre Massachusetts Historic Landmark featuring an authentic colonial inn and tavern which was first licensed in 1716 and run by four generations of one family to 1861. The property was purchased by auto maker Henry Ford in the 1920s, who developed the site's current village appearance, including a water-powered grist mill and late 18th century one-room schoolhouse. Exhibits are located throughout the grounds.
The Wayside Inn building is open for touring daily with period museum rooms and displays, including two cabinet exhibits featuring the personal effects of colonial innkeeper and minuteman Ezekiel Howe. The Redstone school portrays the history of early education in the one-room classrooms found in many rural communities, while the Wayside Grist Mill demonstrates the grinding of corn and wheat in an 18th century-style building.
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