1767 Milestones

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The 1767 Milestones are historic milestones located along the route of the Upper Boston Post Road between the cities of Boston and Springfield in Massachusetts. The 40 surviving milestones were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1] Massachusetts has a total of 129 surviving milestones including those along the upper Post Road.[2] The stones are so named, despite having been placed in many different years, because of a 1767 directive of the Province of Massachusetts Bay that such stones be placed along major roadways. The state highway department was directed in 1960 to undertake their preservation.[3] Many of them underwent a major restoration in 2018.[4]

The first stone was erected by Paul Dudley, one of the prominent citizens of early 18th century Massachusetts, in Roxbury, which was at the time a separate community. Roxbury was located at the end of the Boston Neck, a narrow isthmus separating the mainland from the Shawmut Peninsula, where Boston was located. Travelers going by land from Boston to other areas had to travel over the neck and through Roxbury to reach their destinations. The Roxbury junction where Dudley placed the first stone was where several routes branched, heading south and west across New England.

Dudley erected several stones along the road from Boston to Cambridge which wound its way from Beacon Hill along what is now Washington Street through the Dudley Square area to what is now Huntington Avenue, then along Harvard Street through Brookline Village, Coolidge Corner, and Allston crossing into Cambridge at the Great Bridge, where modern JFK Street in Cambridge becomes North Harvard Street in Allston. The stones that Dudley erected have the initials PD on them, usually at the bottom of the stone.[5] The most chatty of these milestones (not part of this collection), is inscribed P Dudley rather than PD, and is located on the corner of Centre and South Streets in Jamaica Plain.

The stones listed for miles 23 through 29 in Wayland and Sudbury are actually guideposts rather than milestones, and do not list any mileage. They were erected at road intersections rather than at the mile marks. The stones are quarried granite posts with plug & feather tool marks and post-date 1800.

Miles
to Boston 		Year
Placed 		Image Location Town Notes
01 1741 File:BostonMA PartingWaysStone.jpg Template:HsCentre and Roxbury Streets
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Boston, Roxbury This stone is called the "Parting Ways Stone".
04 1729 File:1767MilestoneHuntington.JPG Template:Hs841 Huntington Avenue
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Boston, Mission Hill Engraved "Boston 4 Miles 1729 PD".
05 1729 File:BrooklineMA Milestone5.jpg Template:Hs210 Harvard St.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Brookline Engraved "Boston 5 Miles 1729 PD".
06 1729 File:BostonMA Milestone6.jpg Template:Hs142 Harvard Ave.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Boston, Brighton Engraved "Boston 6 Miles 1729 PD".
07 1729 File:BostonMA Milestone7.jpg Template:Hs240 N. Harvard St.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Boston, Brighton Engraved "Boston 7 Miles 1729 PD".
08 1734 File:Upper Post Road MP 8.jpg Template:HsOld Burial Ground
(Mass. Ave. and Garden St.)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Cambridge Engraved "Boston 8 Miles 1734 AI" on the front, and "Cambridge New Bridge <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />+2⁄1 Miles 1794" on the back.
23 File:WaylandMA Milestone23.jpg Template:HsRiver Road and Water Row
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Wayland
24 File:SudburyMA Milestone24.jpg Template:HsRoute 20 and Landham Road
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Sudbury
25 File:SudburyMA Milestone25.jpg Template:HsRoute 20 and Concord Road
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Sudbury
26 File:SudburyMA Milestone26.jpg Template:HsRoute 20 and Nobscot Road
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Sudbury
27 Template:Hslisted at Boston Post Road and Dudley Road
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Sudbury Listed as missing in 2009 state survey.
28 File:SudburyMA Milestone28.jpg Template:HsRoute 20 and Peakham Road
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Sudbury
29 File:SudburyMA Milestone29.jpg Template:HsWayside Inn Road and Dutton Road
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Sudbury
33 File:Boston Post Road Milestone 33, Northborough MA.jpg Template:Hs143 E. Main St.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Northborough Engraved "33 Miles to Boston".
35 File:ShrewsburyMA Milestone35.jpg Template:HsBoston Post Road and Dean Park
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Shrewsbury Engraved "Boston 35 Springfield 65 Albany 165".
43 c.1760 File:ShrewsburyMA Milestone43.jpg Template:HsWest Main St. Near town common
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Shrewsbury Engraved "43 Mile to Boston".
47 File:WorcesterMA Milestone47.jpg Template:HsLincoln St.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Worcester
48 Template:HsOriginally at 139 Salisbury St.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Worcester Moved to 30 Elm Street (Worcester Historical Museum) c. 2007
It was reported to be in storage there in January 2014.
53 File:1767 Milestones Marker 53.jpg Template:HsRoute 9 at Collier's Corner
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Leicester
54 File:1767 Milestones Marker 54 - Leicester, MA - DSC04178.jpg Template:HsOriginally at Main St. east of Paxton St.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Leicester Stolen and recovered in the 1990s; relocated to museum space in local library in 1996. Now on the Leicester town common. An unmarked replica is embedded in a stone wall just west of Paxton on the south side of Main Street.
56 File:1767 Milestones Marker 56.jpg Template:HsBetween 1676 and 1710 Main St. (Route 9)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Leicester Opposite Leicester Drive-In.
57 File:1767 Milestones Marker 57.jpg Template:Hs500 Main St. (Route 9)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Leicester In front of the Spencer Country Inn.
58 File:Boston Post Road Milestone 58, Spencer MA.jpg Template:Hs 325 Main St. (Route 9)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Spencer
59 File:Boston Post Road Milestone 59, Spencer MA.jpg Template:HsRoute 9, Spencer Shopper's Village
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Spencer
60 File:Boston Post Road Milestone 60, Spencer MA.jpg Template:HsRoute 9 at Dewey St.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Spencer
61 File:1767 Milestones Marker 61.jpg Template:Hs133 West Main St. (Route 9)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Spencer
62 File:Post Road mile marker 62, East Brookfield MA.jpg Template:Hswest of 324 East Main St. (Route 9)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		East Brookfield Stone has been reengraved with loss of integrity.
63 File:Boston Post Road Milestone 63, East Brookfield MA.jpg Template:Hs184 North Brookfield Rd.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		East Brookfield
64 File:Boston Post Road Milestone 64, Brookfield MA.jpg Template:HsElm Hill Rd., near North Brookfield line
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Brookfield
65 File:Boston Post Road Milestone 65, Brookfield MA.jpg Template:HsElm Hill Rd., east of North Brookfield Rd.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Brookfield
66 File:1767 Milestones Marker 66.jpg Template:HsEast of 31 West Main St. (Route 9)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Brookfield
67 File:1767 Milestones Marker 67.jpg Template:Hs102 Foster Hill Rd.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		West Brookfield
68 File:Boston Post Road Milestone 68, West Brookfield MA.jpg Template:HsEast end of town common
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		West Brookfield
69 File:1767 Milestones Marker 69.jpg Template:Hs147 West Main St. (Route 9)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		West Brookfield
70 File:1767 Milestones Marker 70.jpg Template:HsRoute 67 near Old Patrick Rd.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Warren
71 File:1767 Milestones Marker 71.jpg Template:HsBurbank and Washington Sts.
(behind/north side of 129 Washington St.)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Warren
72 File:1767 Milestones Marker 72.jpg Template:HsBemis and Washington Rds.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Warren Now in front of Warren Congregational Church; relocated after 1970.
73 File:1767 Milestones Marker 73.jpg Template:HsNorth side of Baypath Rd.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Warren
74 File:1767 Milestones Marker 74.jpg Template:Hs970 Read St., east of West Warren Rd.
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Warren
99 1763 File:Historic American Buildings Survey Arthur C. Haskell, Photographer Oct. 1, 1937 (a) EXT.- FRONT - Boston Road (Milestone), Springfield, Hampden County, MA HABS MASS,7-SPRIF,2-1.tif Template:HsState St. at Federal St. (Springfield Armory)
Script error: No such module "Coordinates". 		Springfield Known as the "Wait Guide Stone". Inscribed-
<templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Pulsantis Perietum
Virtus est sua Merces

This Stone is Erected
by Joseph Wait, Esq.
of Brookfield
For the Benefit
of Trav[el] Here.
AD 1763

Replica placed in 2010.[6] Original in storage at the Armory Museum.
Template:HsSource unless otherwise cited: NRHP nomination papers[3]

See also

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References

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