Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Rockwood and son, formerly of Purchase Street, Milford, have
    moved into their new home in the Norman S. Henry development, off Dutcher Street.
    They are the first to occupy a house in the development, though other homes are
    nearing completion close by. This area is entered by a roadway referred to in Adin
    Ballou's book, History of Milford, as Driftway. In the early days the road crossed the
    present P. E. Casey farm on West Street, continued through to what is now Dutcher
    Street and entering what is now the development. The road then crossed a bridge on
    the Mill River below the present Rustic Bridge that was known as Cutler Bridge. The
    road continued on through the woods through the present Clark estate on Overdale
    Parkway and the Harvey Trask farm to Mendon. The new road has not been named, but
    due to its early history, might well be called Driftway. Milford Daily News, August 1950

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    And as we know, it was named The Driftway. Until I saw the 1913 Parklands map, I
    didn't know that there had once been a bridge that crossed the upper end of Hopedale
    Pond below the Rustic Bridge. However, it looks to me as though the road on the map
    above crosses the pond just about where the Rustic Bridge is now. The date I have for
    the map is the 1890s. The red town line was added after it was printed. The road
    referred to in the newspaper article must have been the one that leaves West Street just
    to the left of the word, "Milford."  After a short distance, it turned into a dirt road and
    eventually crossed Hopedale Pond. And there it ends. If it continued on through the
    Overdale Parkway area and on into Mendon, it's not shown here. Evidently it had been
    abandoned by the time the map was drawn. Possibly the creation of Hopedale Pond
    by the dam built by the Hopedale Community in the 1840s wiped out the old bridge
    and the road was rerouted to the Rustic Bridge area. The first bridge there was called
    Rawson's Bridge. Freedom Street can be seen winding through the lower part of the
    map.

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