Join us this Saturday for a day of adventure and fun including a hike on Russell’s oldest roads.

Birch Hill Road – a/k/a Shurtleff Road, a/k/a Old Mountain Road, a/k/a Pond Road. Discontinued, as a public way, by town meeting vote 1930. Connects with Birch Hill Road in Blandford as a public way.

General Knox Road

Pendleton Road – discontinued town way circa 1930, now a private road connects Birch Hill Road to the south with South Quarter Road.

Cortis Road-discontinued town way circa 1930, connected Rt. 23 (Blandford Road) to Birch Hill Road near the junction of Pendleton Road and to the Cortis family homestead/Cortis Road circa 1871.

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