Francis Lovelace languished in the Tower of London in 1675, unaware he had created the Boston Post Road two years earlier and...
Ginery Twichell rode into legend on horseback in 1846 when he brought the news of the British elections from Boston to New...
In the early 1950s, the king of Connecticut’s roads was the Berlin Turnpike, lined with colorful kitschy roadside architecture. It was the main...
In 1831, Prudence Crandall bought a large empty house in Canterbury, Conn., setting off a national controversy. She had the effrontery to educate...
For nearly two decades the Indian Motocycle made Springfield, Mass., the center of the global motorcycle business. From 1902, when the first...
The Interstate Highway System exists today because a young Dwight D. Eisenhower took a memorable transcontinental trip in 1919. He did it three...