The 29-acre Madeline Regan Joshua's Trust Preserve is packed with historical, geological, and conservation resources that will make this a popular destination. April 14, 2021 the property sign was installed.
A primary feature of the parcel is a one-half mile section of the Old Connecticut Path, which began as a Native American trail that led from the Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut River Valley. Groups of early colonists, including Thomas Hooker, traversed this path with their ox carts on their way to the Hartford area from Massachusetts in the 1600s and 1700s. Erosion from the oxen, wagon wheels, and other erosive forces created a “sunken road”, making the route of the Connecticut Path easy to identify, even 200 years later.
Trails are installed in this preserve 11-10-21.