The Wayside Inn is an historic landmark inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts in the USA. The Wayside Inn is still in operation, offering a high-quality restaurant, historically accurate guest rooms, and hosting for small receptions.
The inn is also known as Longfellow's Wayside Inn, a name given to the inn to capitalize on the popularity of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn , a book of poems published in 1863. Longfellow visited the Wayside Inn in 1862, when it was called the Howe Tavern. In Tales of a Wayside Inn, the poem The Landlord's Tale was the source of the immortal phrase "listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere."
The grounds of the Wayside Inn include a one-room schoolhouse that was moved there from its original location in Sterling, Massachusetts by Henry Ford, who believed the building was the actual schoolhouse mentioned in Sarah Hale's famous poem Mary Had a Little Lamb, though little historical evidence exists to support his belief.
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