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The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road
The Old Post Road The Story of the Boston Post Road Author:Stewart H. Holbrook On January 22, 1673, a postrider carrying the first mail in North America was dispatched from New York City and arrived in Boston a fortnight later. The route this ride took--by way of New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Brookfield, Worcester, and Cambridge, Massachusetts--has since been known as the Boston Post Road. Retraci... more »ng the route south from Boston's Scollay Square as it was in the nineteenth century, this book is an excursion into 300 years of American history, ending up in New York during the week of George Washington's inauguration as first President of the United States. There are many stops along the way, and anecdotes about famous people who traveled the Post Road are uncovered, as well as the unique contributions of forgotten men and women to the road and the bustling young country it served.
This richly detailed book tells the story of the Post Road up to the present day--capturing the full drama of the first major achievement of the greatest road-building nation since Ancient Rome.« less