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Schoolcraft Road is named for the family of the same name who farmed along this road.  It branches off Peabody Road and skirts the foot of Pevee Mountain.  Schoolcraft Road, in part – particularly near its intersection with Chemin Peabody, offers panoramic views of the Sutton Mountains to the south and the mountains to the west.

Amerindian legend tells of a skirmish in 1759 between the Abenakis and Rogers Rangers at what is now called Travor road and Schoolcraft.  Rogers Rangers , were a company independent militia, what we would now call commandos, associated with the British army during the Seven Years War (also called the French and Indian War in the U.S.A.).  The Rangers had mercilessly attacked and killed many Abenakis in their village of St. Francis or Odanak and were being hunted by the Abenakis for revenge.  It was on their return to New Hampshire that this skirmish occurred.  One hundred of the two hundred Rangers were killed before finally reaching the safety of Charlestown Fort, in New Hampshire.^[1]