" AN HIGHWAY SHALL BE THERE, AND A PVA V." 2 1/ 



tween Highland Avenue and Elm Street upon which the 

 Grand Army Hall stands. This bold ledge and all the 

 soil that fringes it were formerly a part of the Common 

 reaching around to where the harness shop now is. This 

 locality was squatted upon by various persons, and after- 

 wards, in 1805, the town voted to sell it as follows : — 



William Stetson, 12^- rods 

 Thomas Nichols, 14I , 

 Ebenezer Hudson, 15^ . 

 Obadiah Nichols, 5 4- , 

 Laban Warrick, 3I- , 

 George Wade, i| , 



.^50.00 

 31.60 

 24.00 

 16.00 

 20.00 

 15.00 



Roads into wood lots and pathways across pastures have 

 been made and lost many times to suit the convenience 

 of the growing community, but to trace them in their 

 detail, where the feet of men have trod upon their errands 

 of life, is impossible. 



Only these few main thoroughfares have been reviewed 

 in this chapter, because they had been established and 

 partially improved at about the period here reached in our 

 narrative. 



There is, however, one of the ancient wood roads 

 which formerly had much commercial importance and the 

 remains of which may be traced at the present time. 



It is the old cartway in the southeast part of the town, 

 next to Scituate, along which many hundreds, probably 

 thousands of cords of wood were hauled, when Cohasset 

 shipped stove wood to the town of Boston. 



Near the mouth of Bound Brook at William Veale's * 

 present home there was a landing place in the marsh a.s 

 indicated in the accompanying sketch, where the "gon- 

 dolas " of olden time were filled with cord wood to be 



* Mr. Veale guided the autlior alon>,' this old way by thrusting a crowbar 

 tlircugh the soft muck and stril<ing the stones that had been laid there for a 

 foundation of the road. 



