Building the Crown Point Road Traditional Cache
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Building the Crown Point Road
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Building the Crown Point Road...this marker is near the spot where the road divided. The southern branch towards went towards Hubbardton and the eastern towards Fort #4
I have often wondered what the forest looked like to those soldiers sent out to build the Crown Point Road.
Around the eighth of August 1759, Captain John Stark and 200 members of Rogers Rangers set out from Crown Point to cut and mark a road to Fort No. 4 at Charlestown NH. Stark, already well acquainted with the culture of the Indians, was familiar with their trails which often led from Canada to the Connecticut River following smaller streams through the wilderness. The Crown Point Road would essentially follow a path laid down by the Indians along the Otter Creek and Black River.
Stark and his men returned to Crown Point on September 8 or 9 after roughing out a road. On October 27, 1759, the road building resumed under Major John Hawks and a crew of 250. After suffering severe hardships such as hunger, sickness and desertion these men arrived at No. 4 on November 16.
Lieutenant John Small of the British 42nd Regiment of Foot, the Black Watch, sought to modify and improve the route of the military road. Early in the winter of 1759 he traveled the road and explored alternate routes with a group of provincials. He reported to General Amherst in December of that year that "a way suitable for carriages" had been found.
In 1760, a New Hampshire regiment of some 800 men under Col. John Goffe was ordered to Crown Point to take part in the invasion of Canada. While on their way they had orders to improve the road. The men worked on the road until arriving at the Black River Ponds at which time they were ordered to abandon the work and hurry to Crown Point.
Over time the road was improved in some sections, re-routed in others and sometimes abandoned by disuse but the route constructed by these stalwarts during the French and Indian War also served the country and Vermont well during the American Revolution and afterwards during times of settlement.
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