Kennebunk Road

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Did an ancestor travel the Kennebunk Road? Learn about this settler migration route, its transportation history, and find related genealogy sources.

New Englanders inherited a vast network of Indian Trails. Two of the most well known are the Mohawk Trail and the Kennebunk Trail, later known as the Kennebunk Road. The Kennebunk Road was a coastal route that connected Augusta, Maine with Massachusetts, and was an important route from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Boston, Massachusetts. It was also used from 1630-1761 as a migration route for settlers from Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine.

Chester B. Price "Historic Trails of New Hampshire", The New Hampshire Archeologist, 14(1967)1-2, google.books.com