| 词条 | Old Marlboro Road |
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Old Marlboro Road (also known as Old Marlborough Road ) is a historic road and the name of the famous poem about that same road by Henry David Thoreau, published in his work, Walking. Old Marlboro Road currently runs through Concord, Sudbury, and Maynard, Massachusetts. HistoryThe road likely originated as an Indian path being the "shortest course through the domain of Tantamous (Maynard) to Occogoogansett (Marlboro)."[1] Colonists settled along the road in the seventeenth century. During the Revolutionary War, ammunition wagons traveled along Old Marlboro/Concord Road to provide George Washington arms for his defense of Trenton.[2] In the nineteenth century, Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau lived near the disused road in Concord, and frequently walked along it before writing a poem entitled "The Old Marlborough Road."[3] The poem first appears as a journal entry in 1850; it was extensively revised before being incorporated into Walking, published posthumously in 1862. Parts of the route exist as road anew, from Concord, near Emerson Hospital, into Sudbury and then Maynard, where it terminates at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge. The route continues in the Refuge as Winterberry Way and Powerline Trail. Beyond the Refuge, the route continues as roads by various names, ending as Concord Road in Marlborough. References1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=7Iy9J-lxpF8C The History of Concord, Massachusetts: v. 1]Alfred Sereno Hudson - 1904 - Concord (Mass.) pg 103 2. ^http://www.townofmaynard-ma.gov/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/maynard-walking-tour-5-201203.pdf 3. ^Thoreau's "The Old Marlborough Road" 5 : Roads in Massachusetts|Transportation in Middlesex County, Massachusetts|Works by Henry David Thoreau|Essays by Henry David Thoreau|American poems |
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