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[[Image:New England Migration Routes.png|right|400px|New England Migration Routes.png]]The '''Old Connecticut Path''' was created by Native Americans in antiquity. It was the first North American trail that led west from settlements on the Atlantic seacoast into the interior of America.<br><br> | [[Image:New England Migration Routes.png|right|400px|New England Migration Routes.png]]The '''Old Connecticut Path''' was created by Native Americans in antiquity. It was the first North American trail that led west from settlements on the Atlantic seacoast into the interior of America.<br><br> | ||
The Path was used by members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1630. | The Path was used by members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1630. It continued to be used as settlements in Connecticut and other interior locations were settled. | ||
Over the years, settlements like Cambridge, Watertown, Waltham and Weston were established along the path as it winds its way toward South Framingham, Hopkinton, Grafton and westward to Westborough and Woodstock, Connecticut. <ref>Wikipedia - Old Connecticut Path[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Connecticut_Path]</ref> <ref>Sudbury Valley Trustees - Old Connecticut Path[http://www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org/node/215]</ref> | Over the years, settlements like Cambridge, Watertown, Waltham and Weston were established along the path as it winds its way toward South Framingham, Hopkinton, Grafton and westward to Westborough and Woodstock, Connecticut. <ref>Wikipedia - Old Connecticut Path[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Connecticut_Path]</ref> <ref>Sudbury Valley Trustees - Old Connecticut Path[http://www.sudburyvalleytrustees.org/node/215]</ref> <ref>Frederic J. Wood, ''The Turnpikes of New England and the Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland'' (Boston: Marshall Jones, 1919), 25. [https://archive.org/details/turnpikesofnewen00woodrich Internet Archive version online].</ref> | ||
'''Connecting Routes''' Over time the Old Connecticut Path connected with half a dozen other migration routes: | '''Connecting Routes''' Over time the Old Connecticut Path connected with half a dozen other migration routes: | ||
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:*[[Greenwood Road]] from [[Hartford, Connecticut]] to [[North Canaan, Connecticut]] to [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], to [[Albany, New York]]. | :*[[Greenwood Road]] from [[Hartford, Connecticut]] to [[North Canaan, Connecticut]] to [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], to [[Albany, New York]]. | ||
=== External links === | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road Boston Post Road] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 October 2014). | |||
=== References === | === References === | ||