Mt. Moosilauke (1830) - Warren-Woodstock Road
". . . Ever since the towns were first granted, in 1763, the building of a road across the mountains to connect them has been agitated. About the year 1830, the citizens of both towns united and agreed to make a blazed path. A day was appointed for the purpose; the people of Warren turned out, spotted the path up to the town line in the high pass, and then waited for those of Woodstock to put in an appearance.
They shouted, making a noise that awoke every owl and wild beast of the forest, but not a soul appeared or responded. Woodstock men had made a mistake in the day; but a week later they spotted their part of the path, and in like manner shouted for the Warren folks, with no better success. In addition to marking the trees, they chopped off logs, threw out the wind-falls and cut up the trip-wood or hobble-bushes. . . ."
From "The Warren-Woodstock Road" by William Little, pp. 163-173, The Moosilaukee Reader (Vol.1). ©1999.
