. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. traightened, leaving thehouses standing between the old road and the new; but the old houses havesuccumbed to time, and new and comely ones have been erected in theirplaces. It is said that Charles Brewer in early days brought from ThompsonsDingle several maple-trees which he set out by the wayside; giving the oldpath the name of Maple Street, which adheres to it and to several extensionsof the same in later years. Other roads were afterwards located: the roadover Long Hill to Pecowsic Brook w
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. traightened, leaving thehouses standing between the old road and the new; but the old houses havesuccumbed to time, and new and comely ones have been erected in theirplaces. It is said that Charles Brewer in early days brought from ThompsonsDingle several maple-trees which he set out by the wayside; giving the oldpath the name of Maple Street, which adheres to it and to several extensionsof the same in later years. Other roads were afterwards located: the roadover Long Hill to Pecowsic Brook was laid out in 1754; Wilbraham Road,starting from the Boston Road at Goose Pond, in 1769; and Plum-treeRoad in the same year. Pine Street formerly included Oak Street, and was AVNGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. 67 laid out in 1764. It took its name from a huge, wide-spreading white-pinetree, standing in the dooryard of the home of John Stevenson, on theeasterly side of the street, about half way between State and Union hot weather Stevenson was in the habit of resting himself on a couch he. had constructed highup among the branch-es of the tree. A roadleading from the five-mile school - houseeasterly, passing near Peggys Dipping-lb ilc, was laid outabout the same time ;and also a road, tworods wide, begin-ning at the corner of• Murphys field, andrunning by markedpine-trees to a pinestanding a little north of the house where Experience Hancock lately surveyors compass was used in Springfield until 1670 : hence the absenceof field-notes in locating roads previous to this time. One road began at; Kibbees fence, another at a white-birch bush, another was boundedby a white-oak bush ; all showing inefficiency as well as indefiniteness. In 1769 a road was located, taking its starting-point from Long Mill, and Eim on Elm Street 68 KINGS HANDBOOK OF SPRINGFIELD. extending easterly : it was known as the X road, because its crossing an-other road resembled a X- It is now
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