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From Path to Highway: The Story of the Boston Post Road by Gail Gibbons, ISBN 0-690-04514-X, HarperCollins, 1986; Horseback on the Boston Post Road, by Laurie Lawlor, ISBN 0-7434-3626-1, Aladdin, 2002; 1789 strip map from New York to Stratford (0–73)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250. Of the Massachusetts NHLs, 57 are in the state capital of Boston, and are listed separately. Ten of the remaining 134 designations ...
The Wachusett Aqueduct is carried over at least one bridge, and a number of bridges carrying roads (or former roads) over the aqueduct's open channel are contributing structures to its listing on the National Register. The pictured bridge carries Deerfoot Road over the open channel. Walden Street Cattle Pass: 1857, 1869 1994-06-03 Cambridge
Tenth Massachusetts Turnpike: New York line–Lenox–Becket–Sandisfield–Connecticut line 1800–1855 Route 8 / US 20–local streets north of Lenox Third New Hampshire Turnpike: New Hampshire line–Townsend: 1801–1826 Old Turnpike Road (connects to NH 124) Twelfth Massachusetts Turnpike: Egremont–Sheffield—Connecticut line 1801–1857
The King's Highway was a roughly 1,300-mile (2,100 km) road laid out from 1650 to 1735 in the American colonies. It was built on the order of Charles II of England, who directed his colonial governors to link Charleston, South Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts has a total of 129 surviving milestones including those along the upper Post Road. [3] The stones are so named, despite having been placed in many different years, because of a 1767 directive of the Province of Massachusetts Bay that such stones be placed along major roadways.
Located at 18 Brewster Brewster Road. It is believed that the house dates to c. 1696 – c. 1700. [101] [51] No dendrochronology survey. Isaac Winslow House: Marshfield 1699 Residence of a governor of the Plymouth Colony; now a museum. Alden House: Duxbury: c. 1700: A National Historic Landmark, dating to c. 1700 via dendrochronology. [102]
The northern portion came under Massachusetts Bay control in the 1640s. In 1664, James, Duke of York, obtained a charter for land from the Kennebec to the St. Croix River, joining it to his Province of New York. New Hampshire was joined with Massachusetts Bay from 1641 to 1679 and during the dominion period (1686–1692).