Sailors and soldiers flocked there looking for action and to fuel up at the bars that had mushroomed along Hartford Avenue.

The local school is Priestmead First and Middle School on Hartford Avenue.

Business is improving on Hartford Avenue, town officials and local residents say.

The store, really just a converted window in a house through which money and 11 flavors of Italian ice change hands, opened on Hartford Avenue in 1946.

Today the old east-west Middle Post Road is known locally as Hartford Avenue.

After about a mile, Route 176 turns northeast to follow Hartford Avenue.

The town had never experienced any large growth until 1993, when Wal-Mart opened a store along Hartford Avenue (route 126), near the 495 interchange.

Uxbridge Entering Uxbridge, the name of the road changes to Hartford Avenue.

Hartford Avenue is a major cross-town road and follows the route of the Post Road for its entire length.

Hartford Avenue, Riverview Cemetery, 1650-1850, dating from earliest settlement; much of it destroyed ca. 1950 for highway construction.