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Windsor (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ld or fort. At that time (before the Agawam cut through its upper mouth, a century ago) an extensive shoal stretched out from the west shore and the river was fordable at low water. After crossing the river the trail westward became the Mohawk trail. And still further west, crossing the Hudson, it was the Iroquois trail. Southward from the crossing of the Connecticut another trail on the east side led round the shoulder of Longmeadow hill through Longmeadow gate, crossed the river at Windsor, and so to Hartford. This was sometimes called the Longmeadow path. In many of the towns along the way the first settlers located their meeting-houses and town centers on the Bay path. This was clearly so in Grafton, Oxford, Charlton, Sturbridge and Brimfield. And perhaps I may speak of the settlement of Sturbridge as possibly more or less typical. J. G. Holland says: It was wonderful what a powerful interest was attached to the Bay path. It was the channel through which laws
Longmeadow, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
at which point was an Indian stronghold or fort. At that time (before the Agawam cut through its upper mouth, a century ago) an extensive shoal stretched out from the west shore and the river was fordable at low water. After crossing the river the trail westward became the Mohawk trail. And still further west, crossing the Hudson, it was the Iroquois trail. Southward from the crossing of the Connecticut another trail on the east side led round the shoulder of Longmeadow hill through Longmeadow gate, crossed the river at Windsor, and so to Hartford. This was sometimes called the Longmeadow path. In many of the towns along the way the first settlers located their meeting-houses and town centers on the Bay path. This was clearly so in Grafton, Oxford, Charlton, Sturbridge and Brimfield. And perhaps I may speak of the settlement of Sturbridge as possibly more or less typical. J. G. Holland says: It was wonderful what a powerful interest was attached to the Bay path. It
Dorchester, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
nhabitants of Waterton to remove themselves to any place they shall thinke meete to make choice of Prided they continue still under this government. And on the same date, The inhabitants of Roxbury have liberty granted them to remove themselves to any place they shall think meete, not to prejudice another plantation provided they continue still under this government. Manifestly our forbears had no stomach for secession. And on June 3, 1635, there was Leave granted to the inhabitants of Dorchester for their removal. These licenses were not long left unused. On the same May 6th William Pynchon of Roxbury presented himself at the General Court with his accounts as treasurer, which being audited, he was discharged from his responsibility. He went immediately to Agawam (Springfield) and preempted that location for the Roxbury party. He is said to have visited the valley in 1634. The Dorchester Association had pioneers in Windsor in the latter part of June, 1635, led overland by R
Westfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
rossing the divide between the Quinnebaug and the Quabaug, or Chicopee, watersheds. West from Palmer the way led around the north end of Wilbraham mountains to North Wilbraham village, whence it passed southwestward into Springfield, opening from the brow of the hill on which now stands the Arsenal. Springfield was a junction of many Indian trails. From the Arsenal one trail led down to the river, through what is now Forest park, to a point opposite the lower mouth of the Agawam or Westfield river, where the highway now crosses, and at which point was an Indian stronghold or fort. At that time (before the Agawam cut through its upper mouth, a century ago) an extensive shoal stretched out from the west shore and the river was fordable at low water. After crossing the river the trail westward became the Mohawk trail. And still further west, crossing the Hudson, it was the Iroquois trail. Southward from the crossing of the Connecticut another trail on the east side led round
Charlton, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ev. John Eliot selected, on the old Connecticut path, as he called it, a location for the establishment of his seventh village of praying Indians. Still bearing southwestward, to Hopkinton, the track there swung round the north end of Whitehall pond and through southern Westboro into Grafton, crossing the Nipnet (Blackstone) river at a ford now within the village of Millbury. Dropping still more sharply southward, the path descended Federal hill into Oxford, and thence ran westward into Charlton, and by a rather circuitous way over Fisk hill into Sturbridge. There it led through what has been called Tantaskwee pass, exactly where the Worcester-Southbridge-Springfield trolley line passes to Fiskdale. Between Fiskdale and Brimfield (being still in Sturbridge) it touches the southern edge of the thousand acre tract which John Eliot had from the Indians in 1655. In Brimfield the path passed Quabaug Old Fort, of which I shall speak again. Thence westward into Monson, the path stri
Rocky Mountains (search for this): chapter 6
s plain; And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it. How many billions have been spent—railways, highways, even waterways—to follow out that rule, than which there is no better! And the glory of the Lord is revealed thereby. Does not all flesh profit? Have we not by thousands, millions, looked down into Niagara's gorge from the rail and the highroad? Have we not scaled Mt. Washington to view the Presidential range, and conquered Pike's Peak to measure the Rockies? Have we not crossed the country and seen revealed the wealth of harvests, the majesty of continental ranges, the beauties of stream and lake and forest? When truly all roads led to Rome (and Roman roads were built after the same rule) was not Rome the glory and the mistress of the world? And her roads contributed much thereto. Still earlier, when the earliest civilizations flourished in the valleys of the Nile and the Euphrates, a military and commercial road led from Babylon to Me
Millbury (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
s, into Ashland; crossing Cold Spring brook well above (south of) its junction with Sudbury river, at the point where the Rev. John Eliot selected, on the old Connecticut path, as he called it, a location for the establishment of his seventh village of praying Indians. Still bearing southwestward, to Hopkinton, the track there swung round the north end of Whitehall pond and through southern Westboro into Grafton, crossing the Nipnet (Blackstone) river at a ford now within the village of Millbury. Dropping still more sharply southward, the path descended Federal hill into Oxford, and thence ran westward into Charlton, and by a rather circuitous way over Fisk hill into Sturbridge. There it led through what has been called Tantaskwee pass, exactly where the Worcester-Southbridge-Springfield trolley line passes to Fiskdale. Between Fiskdale and Brimfield (being still in Sturbridge) it touches the southern edge of the thousand acre tract which John Eliot had from the Indians in 165
Wilbraham Mountains (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
the thousand acre tract which John Eliot had from the Indians in 1655. In Brimfield the path passed Quabaug Old Fort, of which I shall speak again. Thence westward into Monson, the path strikes just south of the Chicopee river at the town line, and follows the river to Palmer, the summit of the path reaching an altitude of eleven hundred feet in crossing the divide between the Quinnebaug and the Quabaug, or Chicopee, watersheds. West from Palmer the way led around the north end of Wilbraham mountains to North Wilbraham village, whence it passed southwestward into Springfield, opening from the brow of the hill on which now stands the Arsenal. Springfield was a junction of many Indian trails. From the Arsenal one trail led down to the river, through what is now Forest park, to a point opposite the lower mouth of the Agawam or Westfield river, where the highway now crosses, and at which point was an Indian stronghold or fort. At that time (before the Agawam cut through its upper
Cold Spring, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
art from New Amsterdam in 1633. The Bay path left the Roxbury-Dedham road at the north end of Jamaica pond, whence it led nearly westward into Newtowne, and crossed the Charles just above Newton Upper Falls. Thence bearing more southwestwardly to Wellesley, it crossed north of lake Waban over the present college campus, and so through Natick and Framingham, south of Cochituate lake and over the Beaver dam, which both the highway and the B. & A. tracks now cross, into Ashland; crossing Cold Spring brook well above (south of) its junction with Sudbury river, at the point where the Rev. John Eliot selected, on the old Connecticut path, as he called it, a location for the establishment of his seventh village of praying Indians. Still bearing southwestward, to Hopkinton, the track there swung round the north end of Whitehall pond and through southern Westboro into Grafton, crossing the Nipnet (Blackstone) river at a ford now within the village of Millbury. Dropping still more shar
Hopkinton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
of lake Waban over the present college campus, and so through Natick and Framingham, south of Cochituate lake and over the Beaver dam, which both the highway and the B. & A. tracks now cross, into Ashland; crossing Cold Spring brook well above (south of) its junction with Sudbury river, at the point where the Rev. John Eliot selected, on the old Connecticut path, as he called it, a location for the establishment of his seventh village of praying Indians. Still bearing southwestward, to Hopkinton, the track there swung round the north end of Whitehall pond and through southern Westboro into Grafton, crossing the Nipnet (Blackstone) river at a ford now within the village of Millbury. Dropping still more sharply southward, the path descended Federal hill into Oxford, and thence ran westward into Charlton, and by a rather circuitous way over Fisk hill into Sturbridge. There it led through what has been called Tantaskwee pass, exactly where the Worcester-Southbridge-Springfield troll
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