History of the town of Easton, Massachusetts (1886) (14578093967)

Identifier: historyoftownofe04chaf (find matches)
Title: History of the town of Easton, Massachusetts
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Chaffin, William L. (William Ladd), b. 1837 McEntee, Margaret M
Subjects: Easton (Mass. : Town) -- History
Publisher: Cambridge, J. Wilson and Son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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se. This rock is still in sight on thesouth side of Main Street, just west of the railroad bridge. Theroad kept nearly on its present course, past Lincoln Spring, nere six feete Northerly from the bed of the mane spring so asto leve the spring for a convenante watering-plase. Many ofour older citizens remember that before the present road-bedwas raised in the hollow, the main spring was upon the southside of the road as above described. It was a springy swampthere, abounding in iron ore, all of which found in the roadwaywas to belong to Israel Woodward, who owned the land. Theroad ran nearly west from here for some distance past the siteof Flyaway Pond, when it diverged to the northwest, and cameout on the Bay road near the Gilbert places. This end of theroad is now discontinued, but it may be followed even with ateam at the present day, and its roughness gives us a goodsample of many of our roads in the olden time. When thispart of the road was given up in March, 1772, Lincoln Street
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HIGHWAYS. 465 was continued westerly to the Bay road by the Sheperd place.Complaint of this discontinuance was made to the Court ofSessions, and in 1773 the town was required to relay this partof the road to the Gilberts, thirty feet wide ; and it was in useas a road for many years afterward. In 1853 Lincoln Streetwas made forty feet wide from the Bay road to WoodwardsSpring, so called. Centre Street connects North Easton village with EastonCentre. A very small section of this street, that from DanielClarks to Short Street, was laid out in 1738, and was, as beforestated, the connecting link between what are now Summer andShort streets. But just after the building of the new meeting-house at the Centre in 1752, it was extended both south fromShort Street and north to Samuel Phillips, Jr.s, west of theDeWitt farm. This was a part of what was known as the oldMeeting-house road. The north part of this old road was laidout in 1764. It began south of the Cart-bridg near JohnRandalls (that i