Continuing our five hour journey of the entire stretch of the Farmington River into Colebrook Reservoir we found more of the old roads including the Spencer Bridge to the Massachusetts/Connecticut State Line.
“The main road, situated on the east side of the river initially never crossed the river, but followed along the east bank down to and over the narrow, steep “Hogback”. For most of the first half of the nineteenth century, this road was named the Farmington River Turnpike and even had two toll stations; one was very close to the Mass. Border, the second in a private house about one quarter of a mile downstream from the Spencer Bridge. To all natives, it was just “the Hogback Road”. Nixon, resident of Colebrook River Village.

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