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The Wayside Inn is a historic inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States. The inn is included on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the listed Wayside Inn Historic District.Wayside Inn Historic District – National Park Service It became an inn, called Howe's Tavern, in 1716, making it the oldest continuously operating inn in the United States.History of Cooperative Soybean Processing in the United States (1923–2008), William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi (2008), p. 167 The Beekman Arms Inn and others make various claims towards being "continuously operating", resulting from The Wayside Inn's closure period of 1861–1897, after the death of Lyman Howe.Gale, Robert L. A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003: 258. Read more on Wikipedia
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