Transportation : River, Roads, Railway Athol MacBeath recalls that he, Junior (Albert) Boswell and Hugh Lowry walked to the Ellis Brothers ' grocery store in Sherwood with toboggans to pick up mail and groceries. During their walk they found the road open for car traffic only from Wrights Bridge in East Royalty to Charlottetown . Besides the St. Peters Road , other roads in Marshfield moving eastward from the western boundary of the community include: MacCallum Road, , Lower , White , , the , plus the Vickerson and Roads. An interesting story is attached to the creation of the present day MacCallum and Settlement Roads. In a letter to Governor John Ready , dated March 26, 182515 the Governor was petitioned by Peter Stewart Jr. , Peter Stewart , John Ferguson and John McCormack for a public road to run from the Royalty Lot line on Paul Ives Hill (now Holmes' Hill) through to Goff's Creek ( Marshfield Creek ). Until this time settlers in this area presumably travelled out to the St. Peters Road by crossing several farms on the south side of the hollow that runs from what is now Allen MacCallum's property to the base of Holmes' Hill. The reason for the petition was that the petitioners were being denied access to the St. Peters Road by a land owner located between their properties and the route to the St. Peters Road at Ives' Hill. The matter was settled by July 7, 1825 with a description and plan outlining a proposed road intersecting the St. Peters Road on the Charlottetown side of the road to Covehead and running down the boundaries of lands owned by Lt. Col. Robinson and Peter Stewart and then turning about a Vi mile from the river and running east to Marshfield Creek . Today another road known as the Lower constructed in 1957 intersects the and together with the MacCallum Road forms a loop connecting with the St. Peters Road . Continuing east on the St. Peters Road , the next side road on the left is known as and was actually part of the St. Peters Road until the highway was straightened and rebuilt in 1969. Almost opposite the point where reconnects with the St. Peters Road is a road sometimes referred to as . It was the roadway to the Robert Haythorne property and later to the Mills' properties and others, after the original Haythorne property was broken up. At the end of the 1914-1918 war, a plan was put forward to extend the across Marshfield Creek to the . Land was acquired by the Crown for the creation of this road in 1919.16 However, construction was never undertaken on this project. As a compromise, it was agreed that the become a public road and in the 1950's it was still in public use. Eventually was constructed by the government and became the main public access to St. Peters Road for farms in this part of Marshfield . Access was important because many residents and buildings in this area of Marshfield were located close to the river when the river was a principal means of travel. The is the next road on the left as you travel east and connects Marshfield with C3-1^04 Courtesy of Marguerite Godfrey St. Peters Rd. winding eastward (near the Suffolk Rd.) to the north of where Central United Church is today. Suffolk . The runs south from the St. Peters Road to the Hillsborough River . Both these roads form the eastern boundary of Marshfield . The Railway The provided access to the saw and grist mill in Suffolk , and to Suffolk station. The station located at the top of the first ridge up from the St. Peters Road provided Marshfield 's rail terminus to the outside world. The Prince Edward Island Railroad, later part of the Canadian National Railroad, had very little visual presence in Marshfield . The railway entered Marshfield through the property of John Ferguson Jr. (now Gjildert deJong's) and left Marshfield when it crossed the where the small rail station and siding were located. -165-