What is the oldest town in CT? Well, Wethersfield’s town’s motto is «Ye Most Auncient Towne in Connecticut», so I guess we kind of know what their town father’s thought. If you look at Connecticut’s state flag, you’ll see three grapevines. Why grapevines? Well, they can be transplanted, just like people. Each one represents a town in the first wave of English settlements as the Massachusetts settlers moved southwest in the early 1600’s. Wethersfield goes way way back to 1634 when a small band of Puritan settlers established a town here that ultimately became one of the grapevines on the state flag, alongside Windsor and Hartford. This monument is a small copper plaque set into a stone on a town green where Broad Street and Robbinswood Drive meet. The plaque’s inscription reads: To The Memory Of The Adventurers From Watertown, Massachusetts Who Settled Wethersfield In 1634 John Oldham * Robert Seeley * John Strickland * Andrew Ward * John Clarke * Leonard Chester * Nathaniel Foote * Abraham Finch * Robert Rose * William Swayne Erected By The Wethersfield Historical Society June 8, 1934
