A drive or walk down Glastonbury’s Main Street is a picture-postcard experience: a gracefully tree-lined avenue of beautifully maintained vintage homes, steepled churches, and a classic town green. The center of town is home to locally owned businesses, restaurants, coffee shops, gift and specialty shops—even a hardware store owned and operated by the same family since 1920.
Got the picture? Welcome to Glastonbury, Connecticut. One of the oldest towns in New England, Glastonbury was established in 1693 by settlers who crossed the Connecticut River from Pyaug (now Wethersfield) in 1636. A ferry boat—the oldest continuously operating ferry in the U.S.—still crosses nearby, between Glastonbury and Rocky Hill, and has since 1655.