The sign reads:

Great Indian Warrior Trading Path. The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here. Linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA & VA and the 19 chiefs of the Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722, opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization. In NY, the Path linked the Iroquois around The Great Lakes to the major Eastern trails and tribes for trade, hunting and war.

“Although you may not recognize it by the way it looks here, Route 9 is really an extension of old Broadway in Manhattan. Follow that road south and it will take you right down through Times Square. Take it north and it leads to Albany. Also known as the Kings Highway and the Albany Post Road it crossed present day Route 52 which was the main route between Boston and Philadelphia. This made Fishkill a very important crossroads during the American Revolution”(Van Wyck Homestead Museum Self-Guided Trail Guide).

Taken with a Sony RX-100 M3.