This is one of some 230 markers erected on the Boston Post Road
Their locations were fixed by Benjamin Franklin the Deputy Postmaster General who for that purpose drove a chaise with a distance recorder over the route. Restored to this its original position June 1st, 1927, by the Village of Rye.
Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.(Proverbs XXII Verse 28.)
Marker is at the intersection of Boston Post Road (Route 1 at milepost 26) and Rectory Street on Boston Post Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
