Please join the Wayland Historical Society and the Sudbury Historical Society’s April program HOW THE PURITAN VILLAGE EVOLVED: A GUIDED TOUR OF COLONIAL SUDBURY PLANTATION (SUDBURY AND WAYLAND) 1639-1730 on Sunday, April 29 ~ 2:00 – 4:00 PM
We will gather at the Sudbury Town Hall at 2pm sharp for a narrated guided bus tour of colonial-era Sudbury and Wayland. We’ll stretch our legs at the Four-arch (Town) Bridge on the Sudbury River to talk about the river’s importance to early settlers and Native Americans; then onto North Cemetery to view our first joint town center and monument to the first meetinghouse. At the Mill Pond, where the first grist mill in Sudbury was located, we will hear about our mutual first miller, the aptly named Thomas Cakebread, and finally to the sites of the fourth and fifth (present) meeting houses—the new center of what would become East Sudbury in 1780 and Wayland in 1835. We will return to present-day Sudbury Center to learn about the early settlers on the west side of the river and their first steps toward separation before enjoying refreshments in the Sudbury Town Hall courtesy of the Sudbury Historical Society. Seating on the bus will be limited to approximately 40 people and information on reserving seats ($5.00 each is available at www.waylandmuseum.org and www.sudbury01776.org. People are welcome to follow by car. Please bring your $5.00 per seat payment with you on April 29th.
