This postcard from about 1909 shows one of the mile markers on the Boston Post Road in Springfield, Mass.: "This Stone is Erected by Joseph Wait, Esq., of Brookfield For the Benefit of Travllers AD 1763."
The postcard was printed in Germany by the Robbins Bros. Company of Boston.
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Jacqueline T. Lynch is the author of:
The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War;
Comedy and Tragedy on the Mountain: 70 Years of Summer Theatre on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Massachusetts;
States of Mind: New England, essays from New England Travels
A Tragic Toast to Christmas -- The Infamous Wood Alcohol Deaths of 1919 in Chicopee, Mass.; as well as books on classic films and several novels.
Her Double V Mysteries series is set in New England in the early 1950s.
Most of her books can be purchased at Bookshop.org here, as well as most online shops.
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