It Happened in Windham: The history of Route 302 and the Roosevelt Trail name

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It Happened in Windham: The history of Route 302 and the Roosevelt Trail name

I have often wondered why Route 302 is also called Roosevelt Trail. I assumed it was because the road was built during President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal as part of the Works Progress Administration that supplied paying jobs to unemployed people during the Great Depression. I was wrong. The road’s beginnings go back to […]