T Stands for the Wayside Inn and Grist Mill

An outing with Teague, and we decided to be ladies who lunch and to have lunch at Longfellow's Wayside Inn. I did a previous post when Himself and I stopped for lunch

The Inn is a very popular destination and looked crowded. I wondered if we would have a long wait to get a table. No wait and we were seated in the Tap Room, cozier than the main dining room.

I ordered a chicken club which came with fries (chips), a pickle and pepper relish, and I had unsweetened ice tea for my beverage.

After lunch, we stopped up the road a piece to visit the Grist Mill. They Wayside Inn and property was purchased by automobile entrepreneur, Henry Ford. He made improvements to the Grist Mill, and the building of the Martha Mary Chapel across the street from the mill. You can read over 300 years of history of the Inn and property here

Teague was married at the Martha Mary Chapel and wedding photographs were taken at the Grist Mill.

The mill is a working mill and is still in operation today. Cornmeal and wheat flours are ground and used to bake cornbread and rolls at the Inn. 

The power to drive the water wheel comes from a stream of the Sudbury River.

In the basement of the mill was this decapitated statue. Since it was close to Halloween when we visited, we thought maybe St. Francis (I'm guessing because of the little bird on his shoulder) was trying out for the part of the Headless Horseman from Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow

 I was wishing I had this Cyclone Dust Collector to automatically take care of the dusting in my house.

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