Old Connecticut Path: Walking to School in the 1860s-1870s- Ashford/Eastford, Connecticut

Follow the Old Connecticut Path along the route walked to school by the Chism brothers in the 1860s and 1870s. The recollections of the Chism brothers identify the story of places along the path in Ashford and Eastford, Connecticut passed down through oral history of their family. This video follows their route to school with stops along the way to view the places the Chism brothers remember from their childhood. The route of the Old Connecticut Path leads back in time to offer glimpses of the deep wilderness through which the earliest travelers including Thomas Hooker and his congregation traveled.

The Old Connecticut Path is one of the earliest trails followed as part of America's westward migration. 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.

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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

To visit a section of the Old Connecticut Path that forms America's oldest highway preserved in Woodstock, Connecticut.
http://youtu.be/Ftx7pS5hvdE

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can't find walker rd in eastford, ct.....found walker dr. and walker ln.....?