Old Tavern at Grafton

Grafton, Vermont, is home to one of New England's true treasures: The Old Tavern at Grafton. If ever there were a place to live the poet's words, it is The Old Tavern. It's heritage goes back almost as far as our country's; it opened only 12 years after America's independence. The rich lineage and unspoiled colonial beauty of The Old Tavern are evident everywhere in Grafton. When you come to The Old Tavern, you truly step into yesteryear. With its hand-hewn beams, the rich patinas of wide pine flooring, pewter and brass, and its understated decor, The Old Tavern looks very much like it did in the old days, when it accomdated the likes of Daniel Webster, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ulysses S. Grant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rudyard Kipling and Henry David Thoreau.Andrew Harper of Harper's Hideaway report recommends the Old Tavern as one of the finest in New England.