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The Old Connecticut Path is one of the earliest trails followed as part of America’s westward migration. A section of the Old Connecticut Path that forms America’s oldest highway is preserved in Woodstock, Connecticut. This video visits the old highway as it crosses Mill Brook on the way to Fort Hill (green line right to left).
The historical significance of this section of the Old Connecticut Path is recognized in the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to the importance of the path as a route for westward migration, the area was an important native Wabaquasset tribal village and one of the earliest places settled in 1686 by the founders of Woodstock.
To take a walk along this section of the Old Connecticut Path, select picture or link to view the video on YouTube. http://youtu.be/Ftx7pS5hvdE
As early as 1635-36, the migration from Massachusetts Bay at Boston/Cambridge west to Connecticut began following the Old Connecticut Path. Reverend Thomas Hooker and his entire congregation walked along the Old Connecticut Path for two weeks across the wilderness in 1636 from Cambridge, MA to establish Hartford, CT. Join me for a walk and use your imagination to experience the landscape traveled by the pioneers of the 1600s.
To experience walking on a real beaver dam, join me for a visit to a small section of the Old Connecticut Path in Douglas, Massachusetts and a nearby beaver dam.
“Old Connecticut Path beaver dam walk” on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNmQS3WVGLk
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LINKS
Woodstock, CT Historical Society
http://www.woodstockhistoricalsociety.org/
Roseland Cottage - Historic New England
http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/roseland-cottage
The Last Green Valley (TLGV)
BACK TO 2.001 Guide to Crossing the Last Green Valley: West Sutton, MA to Tolland, CT
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