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=== Background History === | === Background History === | ||
[[Image: | [[Image:{{PequotPathmap}}]]The '''Pequot Path''' was part of an American Indian trail that was widened by European colonists into a wagon road from Providence to Westerly in far southwest Rhode Island.<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> This path was part of a chain of shorter roads that formed the lower fork of the [[Boston Post Road]] connecting from Boston to Providence ([[Old Roebuck Road]]) to Westerly (Pequot Path) to New Haven, Connecticut to New York City. The long route from Boston to New York to Charleston, South Carolina was also known as the [[King's Highway]] from the 1750s to about 1780. | ||
=== External links === | === External links === | ||
*[http://qb.mindhenge.org/PostRoad.html On the Trail of Benjamin Franklin: The Lower Boston Post Road] (accessed 17 October 2014). | *[http://qb.mindhenge.org/PostRoad.html On the Trail of Benjamin Franklin: The Lower Boston Post Road] (accessed 17 October 2014). | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road Boston Post Road] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 October 2014). | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road Boston Post Road] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 October 2014). | ||