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A Map of the Mohegan Sachems Hereditary Country
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A Map of the Mohegan Sachems Hereditary Country, Plotted Aug 1st 1705, John Chandler, Surveyer.
Note that North is at the bottom.
Front-piece, Governor and Company of Connecticut and Moheagan Indians, By their Guardians, Certified Copy of Proceedings Before Commissioners of Review MDCCXLIII (1743), London : MDCCLXIX (1769)
Aster
Dwelling and Mill, North of Troop's Hill
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Mill site north of Troop's Hill on Hartford Old Road connecting Woodstock and Hartford.
The old dwelling and barn probably after 1718, newer house probably in the 1730s. The course of road to the east of the house was altered circa 1800 with a section of the old way being abandoned.
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Ax Factory Road
Stone House
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Hartford Old Road
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Town records have a "new" Hartford Road being marked in 1716 and named as a Country Road by 1718.
This is a section of the Colonial era Woodstock to Hartford Road heading west to Moose Meadow and Roaring Brook. From town records, two sections of the Hartford Old Road to the west of this were discontinued in 1800.
Voigtländer 28mm f/1.9 Ultron (LTM)
Tavern - tap room
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Tavern - landing
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Tavern - files
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ca. 1805/6
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Split rail
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Westford/Moose Meadow Road
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Moose Meadow Village
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On the road heading west, after cresting a knoll where a Methodist Meeting House, the Tolland County Moose Meadow District Post Office, forge mill and a number of dwellings were located in the mid 1800s. Moose Meadow is to the north, on the right. Moose Meadow as a place name shows up in town records as early as 1716, four years prior to the township grant, and is often mentioned along with Roaring Brook as a landmark. A working assumption is that a tavern was located near here on what was at the time a post road, hence the location of the Post Office. The next stop to the east would have been at the north end of Troop's Hill in Ashford, and then on to Richardson's tavern in Westford village (not to be confused with Westford Hill aka Troop's Hill, White Pine Hill.
This road is present day Turnpike Road, the old Center Turnpike, previously Hartford Old Road, heading towards Roaring Brook, a crossing over the Willimantic River and on to the routes through Tolland pointing to Bolton Notch and Hartford, and over the hills to Windsor.
