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15 Best Things to Do in Stafford (CT)

In Tolland County on the border with Massachusetts, Stafford is an ensemble of small villages with a downtown at Stafford Springs, where the Middle River and Furnace Brook meet to form the Willimantic. This place had long been frequented for its natural springs, and in 1771 a young John Adams spent some time here to …

Staffordshire’s county town is essentially a small market town on the River Sow, but has much to hold your attention. There are two historic churches, one of which has very rare 900-year-old Romanesque decoration. On the Market Place, Shire Hall is a bold Palladian courthouse currently awaiting a new vocation, and the Ancient High House …