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Driving Through Time – The Remains of California’s Wooden Highway
Before highways and blacktop, pioneers crossed California’s dunes on this—an actual wooden road. We visited the eerie remains ...
The Daily Gazette2y
Blast from the Past: Old Plank Roads of Fulton County
BLAST FROM THE PAST – In the mid-19th century, the country experienced the Plank Road Boom. George Geddes, an engineer from Syracuse, saw plank roads — which are exactly what they sound like ...
Chicago Tribune1y
The Way We Were: Decision to reject railroad line in favor of ‘plank’ road had big impact on Naperville’s history
Officials said no, opting instead to back the Southwestern Plank Road — literally a road built of wooden planks — that would allow farmers and other travelers to travel by carriage or wagon to ...