Flowers for Wethersfield, CT

Wethersfield was shipping red onions down the Connecticut River while Hartford was still counting houses, and Comstock, Ferre & Co. has sold garden seeds from its Main Street storefront since the 1820s — horticulture is written into this town's deed. The flood of 1692 rerouted the river and left behind the quiet Cove with its seventeenth-century warehouse; everything around it matured into the largest historic district in the state, block upon block of colonials from the Buttolph-Williams House to the brick meetinghouse of First Church, where Washington and Rochambeau's officers once planned the Yorktown campaign at the Webb House next door. Flower orders here move at the town's two speeds: slow lanes off Old Main Street, where delivering means parking and walking a brick path, and the Silas Deane Highway, where the DMV headquarters, medical suites, and plaza storefronts take arrangements at the front counter.

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