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It appears, though, that Roberts Cove Road followed a slow, sloping approach now marked on the maps as "Pond Road" to merge with present Route 28 near the Wolfeboro line, rather than crossing present 28 as Rines Road-Stagecoach Road. I've walked Stagecoach Road from Rines Road, which is impassible to vehicles, and it's hard to believe it was ever an auto road.
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Gokart-mozart - It appears that you were right about the first part of this statement but perhaps not the last part. If you go to
www.nhdeeds.com for Belknap County and go to Plan Book 58 Page 9, you will see a boundary line survey for the McLeod property from 1972 that specifically identifies "Old Route 28" and "NH Route 28". It shows the routing of Old Rt 28 down what is often marked on modern maps as "Pond Road" off of Roberts Cove Road (which is what you had thought) rather than up Roberts Cove Rd to Rines Rd to Stagecoach (as I had guessed). It goes past the McLeod's driveway (sometimes seen as McLeod Rd on current maps). Then Old Route 28 crossed the current 28 and made its way over to Stagecoach Road where it presumably continued down the currently impassable road grade to merge with the current 28 near the Wolfeboro line. Google Earth also seems to show a faint shadow of how the Old 28 made its way over to Stagecoach Rd.