Sarah Knight's Great American Road Trip

ANNETTE TELLS TALES A Boston Widow Travels Solo on the I-95 Freeway to New York. In 1704.

Road Trip: Boston to NYC

Thirty years after Sarah Knight’s journey from Boston to New York, this handy dandy mile marker appeared on the Old Post Road in Cambridge, Massachusetts (home of Harvard University). Image: Public Domain.

The way through the forests between what became Boston and New York was made by Pequot feet. When the English arrived, the na…