Then and Now: The sad saga of Old Goshen Road

There is still a town road in Conway called Old Goshen Road, but it’s just a development road that some think was part of the original route from Center Conway to the heart of South Conway. I remember it as a mere logging road.

The colonial trail from Timothy Walker’s homestead at the outlet of Walker’s Pond to the hamlet called Goshen Corner would have been the logical route to bear the name Goshen Road. By modern nomenclature it would have run from the Conway Lake beach down Old Mill Road to Davis Hill Road, across the remains of Henderson Road to where it reconnects with Davis Hill Road, and then to Goshen Corner, 400 yards farther on.