Riverton, CT Restaurants, Restaurant Menus & Dining
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What can you say about a town whose first resident was a full blooded Native American who married a white woman, and built an inland cabin that became known as the “Barkhamsted Lighthouse?” (A turnpike eventually ran by the cabin whose firelight shinning through the chinks provided welcome direction to stage drivers!)  What can you say? Actually quite a lot.  This little gem amongst the gems of Litchfield County seems to encapsulate what is wonderful about both Northwest Connecticut and the Farmington River Valley. Placed on the edge of both the Farmington River and the 3,000 acre People’s State Forest, whose trails can bring you to views that are some of the best in the state, Riverton has history, outdoors action, and blissful charm. This town is both mountainous, as well as cut into deep valleys by the East and West Branches of the Farmington.  The foundation of this “Dry Land Lighthouse” is still there, smack in the middle of a hiking trail in the People’s State Forest and you can still stay at a destination to which it led and that is the Old Riverton Inn.  But if you would like to be as close to the water as possible with out falling in, try the On The River Bed and Breakfast. It is no surprise that this storybook town contains the homestead (and home) of the well known children’s storybook writer and illustrator, Mark Kimball Moulton.  The perfect place for a “wide eyed child at heart and a man of many smiles.”  Wide-eyed child at heart and a man of many smiles."