Old Marlboro Road

The road likely originated as an Indian path, being the "shortest course through the domain of Tantamous (Maynard) to Occogoogansett (Marlboro).

During the Revolutionary War, ammunition wagons traveled along Old Marlboro/Concord Road to provide George Washington arms for his defense of Trenton.

Rice Tavern existed from 1685 to 1815 at the crossing of the Concord-Marlborough and Sudbury-Lancaster roads.

[2] In the nineteenth century, Transcendentalist Thoreau] lived near the disused road in Concord, and frequently walked along it, before writing a poem entitled "The Old Marlborough Road.

"[3] Parts of the route exist as road anew, from Concord, near Emerson Hospital, into Sudbury and then Maynard, where it terminates at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge.

Rice Tavern
Winterberry Way near the Old Marlboro Road entrance to Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Maynard