First Settler / Roads and Boundaries

First Settler

The first dwelling in what would become Foxborough was erected in 1669. It was located west of nearby Wading River on a farm laid out for Captain William Hudson who

was a Boston tavern keeper. Hudson never lived here, but ...

A Question of Boundaries

The United States planned Fort Knox to prevent another attempt by the English to control Maine lands east of the Penobscot, as they had successfully done in the American Revolution and War of 1812.

Fort Knox's construction had not yet begun ...

Boundaries of Freedom

The fenceless plains were vast and open when early homesteaders first came here. But the very nature of homesteading - the possibility of an individual owning 160 acres - meant that somebody had to legally divide and define limits for ...

Boundaries Settled

The exact spot where Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia met is not easy to see on the ridge line below. Nor was it easy to determine.

In 1665 Great Britain's King Charles II declared his Virginia colony was to be separated from ...

Boundaries

Four counties

come together here.

Your’e standing in Rockland

and looking at Westchester

across the river.

North of the bridge is

Orange County on this side,

and Putnam on the other.

Marker is on New York Route 9 W, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org