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HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



Straits Pond, of which Jerusalem Road is the famous 

 descendant. 



A third path which was most of all influential in de- 

 termining our roads is what we have called the old cattle 

 trail leading from Turkey Meadow to Little Harbor. 

 Fisher's plan might well have regarded this natural course ; 

 but he wholly ignored it, providing no way whatever for 

 straight travel to and from Hingham. 



Cart travel to Hingham was not indeed the first 

 demand for highways, because boats were the exclusive 

 means of transporting hay to Hingham for the first thirty 

 or forty years. The first cartways were those leading 

 along the edge of the marshes next to the upland and 

 connecting with the various loading places. We have 

 already spoken of these loading places and of the corduroy 

 bridge, ordered built by John Jacob, the father of the Co- 

 hasset John Jacob, as early as 1672, across the narrow strip 

 of meadow where Spring Street now crosses the railway. 



Panorama ok Elm Street, looking 



