Old Roebuck Road

United States Migration Trails and Roads Massachusetts Old Roebuck Road

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Route

Trail from the Massachusetts Bay to Narragansett Bay, or from Boston, Massachusetts to Providence Island. It lead through Dedham, East Walpole, Foxboro, North Attleboro and Pawtucket to Providence Rhode Island.

• Walking the Post Road

Connecting Routes Over time the Old Roebuck Road connected with half a dozen other migration routes out of Boston:

• Bay Road connects Boston (Massachusetts Bay) to New Bedford (Buzzards Bay).
• Coast Path follows an ancient Indian path near the shoreline from Boston to Plymouth.
• Kennebunk Road links Boston along the New England coast to Augusta, Maine.
• King's Highway also known as the Boston Post Road goes from Boston, Massachusetts to New York City, and south to Charleston, South Carolina with extensions on each end. In Massachusetts and Connecticut there were at least three competing routes for the Boston Post Road. Parts were laid out 1650 to 1735; its length remained in heavy use through 1783, and some parts are used to this day.
• Mohawk or Iroquois Trail This trail was established in 1722 from Albany to Utica to Rome to Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario. The Boston to Albany side of that route probably preceded the Albany to Oswego route by many years.
• Old Connecticut Path a pre-historic Indian path from Boston, Massachusetts to the Connecticut River Valley at Springfield, Massachusetts and south to Hartford, Connecticut .