Before highways and blacktop, pioneers crossed California’s dunes on this—an actual wooden road. We visited the eerie remains ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a split second thing. She didn’t have time to recognize the object as a 6-foot plank of carpeted wood hurling toward her. “It can just happened so quickly,” says Christman ...

An unhinged man went on a random, 10-minute whacking spree with a wooden plank in lower Manhattan Wednesday morning — smashing four victims over the head, cops said. The maniac first hit an ...