From Past to Present
Washington's tour
How was the road was used after the war? When George Washington was first elected in 1789, he took a tour on the Boston Post Road all the way from NY to Boston. Washington stayed in many inns while on the tour and after his departure, some of them displayed signs that read: "George Washington slept here." One of the inns he stayed in while on his tour was Rye's "Square House" which was a house that later converted into an inn. While on this tour he had meetings with politicians, discussed agriculture practices, and attended church serves.
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What has happened to the road since then?
For a long time the primary route for commuting between states was the Boston Post Road, even well into the years of automobiles. However as the roads became more congested in 1930 more roads were opened up. These roads were still not enough to contain the amount of people traveling, so in 1956 president Dwight Eisenhower started the 41,000 mile interstate highway system. Many parts of the Boston Post Road are still being used as highways. Parts of the road are still called the Kings road or the Boston Post Road but others are called US route 5, 1, and 20. In 1925 the federal government asked the states to designate their principal routes, Massachusetts chose two branches of the Boston Post Road as US route 1 and US route 20. Today the Boston Post Road has been designated a national historical landmark.
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