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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., The Bay path. (search)
e Mohawk trail. And still further west, crossing the Hudson, it was the Iroquois trail. Southward from the crossing of the Connecticut another trail on the east side led round the shoulder of Longmeadow hill through Longmeadow gate, crossed the river at Windsor, and so to Hartford. This was sometimes called the Longmeadow path. In many of the towns along the way the first settlers located their meeting-houses and town centers on the Bay path. This was clearly so in Grafton, Oxford, Charlton, Sturbridge and Brimfield. And perhaps I may speak of the settlement of Sturbridge as possibly more or less typical. J. G. Holland says: It was wonderful what a powerful interest was attached to the Bay path. It was the channel through which laws were communicated, through which flowed news from distant friends, and through which came long, loving letters and messages. It was the vaulted passage along which echoed the voices that called from across the ocean, and through which, li