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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.
Daily life in colonial New England (Bloomsbury, 2017) online. Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (1998) Lockridge, Kenneth A. A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636–1736 (1985), new social history online; Perlmann, Joel, Silvana R. Siddali, and Keith ...
The Boston Post Road Historic District encompasses a portion of the historic roadway known as the Boston Post Road, which ran Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York.The surviving alignment in Weston, Massachusetts extends along the entire length of United States Route 20, except for a bypassed section that passes through the town's village center.
Distance: 4,900 miles Don’t Miss: St. Charles Historic District The second-longest of America’s National Historic Trails, this route commemorates the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806.
Long native usage had emphasized the easiest route, [2] skirting the water meadows of the river bottoms and crossing streams at the most dependable fords.During the trip to Connecticut the Path crosses the Blackstone River, that crossing was known as the North Bridge and the Quinebaug River crossing was known as the South Bridge, both Northbridge and Southbridge were named after those well ...
Hosmer, James Kendall ed. Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630–1649; Karlsen, Carol F. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England (1998), new social history; Labaree, Benjamin Woods. Colonial Massachusetts: A History (1979), scholarly overview online; Labaree, Benjamin W. The Boston Tea Party (1964) online
The New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually became five of the ...
The Popham Colony was the second colony in the region that would eventually become known as New England. The first colony was St. Croix Island, near what is now the town of Calais. (St. Croix Island was settled initially in June 1604, then moved in 1605 by Samuel de Champlain to the Bay of Fundy). [1]