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-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>
+Settlers who traveled the '''Old Connecticut Path''' from '''[[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]''' to '''[[Sprinfield, Massachusetts|Springfield]]'''  to
+'''[[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]] passed through these places:
+Suffolk County Boston
+Middlesex
 '''Connecting Routes'''. The '''''Old Connecticut Path&nbsp;''''' connected with many other settler migration routes:
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 :*[[Greenwood Road]] from [[Hartford, Connecticut]] to [[North Canaan, Connecticut]] to [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], to [[Albany, New York]].
 '''Modern parallels'''. The modern roads that roughly match the '''''Old Connecticut Path&nbsp;''''' from Boston to Springfield to Hartford are:
 === Settler Records  ===