Hartford Old Road (at Pine Hill)

Lines, viewing west on Center Turnpike at the intersection where the road from the Westford Congregational Meeting House across Pine Hill to ran north to Union. Pine Hill was called White Pine Hill or Troop's Hill in some town records. Lots on Pine Hill were laid out in 1718.

The turnpike must have been considered a fairly direct route, to be designated as a Post Road. A Stage line ran daily between Boston and Hartford. This was called the Telegraph Road in some records, after the Telegraph Stage. Other turnpikes had Telegraph Stage lines as well.

"The Center Turnpike Company was incorporated in Connecticut in May, 1826, to build from the Tolland courthouse through Willington, Ashford, Union, and Woodstock to the Massachusetts line in Dudley, where it connected with the road of the Central Turnpike Corporation." (Turnpikes, 194, 195)


Wood, Frederic I., The Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia and Maryland, Boston, 1919