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Excerpt from Lucy Keyes: The Lost Child of Wachusett Mountain
Although no record furnishes evidence of any road near Mr. Keyes' farm, yet there was no doubt one following the old Indian path, and perhaps identical with the present Westminster road, connecting the road on which Mr. Moore's tavern was located with the older traveled road towards the west which passed by Wachusett Pond to some of the interior towns.
Mr. Keyes was by trade a blacksmith, but one cannot readily conceive at the time of his settlement, or for many years after wards, any demand for his services in that locality, except for his own personal needs. Miles from any village and away from the traveled roads, and even those roads used so little, we can under stand that he was forced to lay aside his accustomed trade and give attention to clearing the land and tilling the soil. The wild ness of the country, ' abounding in large areas of woodland, afforded him, also, facilities for. Exercising his skill as a huntsman, for which he was famous.
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