Just south of this location, Pulpit Rock Road briefly joins Old Hall Road and then turns west as a mostly unpaved road, near Pulpit Rock. This section formed a small segment of the Connecticut path, itself part of the Great Trail of New England from Boston to New York by way of Windsor, Hartford, and New Haven, a trail linked to the founding of Connecticut. Along Old Hall Road, 0.4 miles south, Eliot Rock marks the place where on Sept. 16, 1674, the Rev. John Eliot, known as the “Apostle to the Indians,” preached on Matthew 6:33. Pulpit Rock, a regular place of worship in 1686, was dedicated by the Bicentennial Committee of Woodstock during the celebration of September 5-7, 1886, when Edwin Holmes Bugbee had the rock inscribed, “1686-Pulpit Rock. Scared for evermore – 1886”. At the conclusion, Col. Alexander Warner moved to adjourn until September 7, 1986, and an amendment by Mr. Bugbee to meet every one hundred years for one thousand years was accepted and adopted in celebration of Woodstock’s 300th anniversary.