History of Post Road

History & Background

The new nation needed good roads. Independence from Great Britain freed American mechanics and entrepreneurs to join the Industrial Revolution. But they needed access to materials and to markets, and that meant wagons and the roads they traveled on. By the year 1800, “internal improvements” … roads, bridges, canals… had become top national priorities.

Based on The Story of Darien Connecticut
by Museum of Darien Historian Ken Reiss

Trail Marker

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