The Cove Warehouse at Wethersfield Cove

The Cove Warehouse is open Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, late May through early October. Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted.

The venerable Cove Warehouse on our Wethersfield Cove dates to the late 17^th century; it is the last remaining of six warehouses that stood on the river’s edge to accommodate Wethersfield’s brisk shipping trade in the first century of the Town’s existence.  The other warehouses were swept away in the massive flood of 1697 that changed the course of the Connecticut River and created the Wethersfield Cove we know today.  In 1928, the Russell K. Bourne D.S.C. Post (now the Bourne-Keeney Post), of the American Legion and Jared Butler Standish restored the warehouse, and it was dedicated as part of the Town’s 300^th Anniversary celebrations in 1934. After the 1936 flood, Prisoners from the neighboring Wethersfield State Prison built the raised stone foundation it sits on today. The Warehouse became a Wethersfield Historical Society museum in 1962.  It is owned by the Town and leased to the historical society for the annual rent of one rope of red onions.

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