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2023-06-30
By Longfellow, Rickie
Series: FHWA Highway History Website Articles

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Alternative Title:

Plank Roads
Creators:

Longfellow, Rickie
Corporate Creators:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Contributors:

Bremner, Jim
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History Road Construction Wood Wooden Pavements
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
Resource Type:

Web Document
Right Statement:

Public Domain
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Abstract:

Many of our Nation's roadways were once dirt and mud paths until the early to mid–1800s. A modern movement at that time called for the building of wooden roads, a great improvement in transportation. These planks-boards-were laid over the roadway on log foundations in various lengths, but most were eight feet long. Built for wagons, the width of the roads was 12 feet or more. In downtown areas the roads were wider.
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The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
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Federal Highway Administration
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