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• Recreation: Roads and Highways: Historic (28)

• A History of Roads in the US using Athens as a Case Study - Paper by Becky Brignac written in 1999, in the History Department, at the University of Georgia, to fulfill the senior writing requirement for completion of the history major.
• A1 and The Great North Road - History, geography and anything of interest about the development of the route between London and Edinburgh.
• Ancient and Modern Highways - Full text of illustrated essay by Charles Livy Whittle, The New England Magazine, February 1898.
• Coaching Days and the Road Engineers - Discusses roads in Britain and the United States during the canal age. Written by J. B. Calvert.
• Edward de Smedt - Short biography of the inventor of modern road asphalt in 1870. Also includes a short commentary on the history of roads and asphalt.
• First American Macadam Road - Illustrated essay on this road laid on the Boonsborough Turnpike Road between Hagerstown and Boonsboro, Maryland in 1823.
• Highways - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century - Detailed historical information, timelines, and personal essays by key innovators on highway construction within the United States.
• Historic Highways - Lancashire - Comprehensive history. Topics include Roman roads, turnpike roads, and motorways. Includes gallery and forum.
• Milestones For U.S. Highway Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration - Illustrated time line of key events covering the period 1892 to 1996.
• Namibian Roads in History - Illustrated history and development of the roads system from the 13th century till today.
• Pittsburgh-Stoyestown Turnpike - Story of its building and use by John N. Boucher published in 1911.
• Public Roads, their Improvement and Maintenanc - Full text of this book by E.R.Buckley first published in 1907.
• Roads Through History - Presents an illustrated record of the history of road-making across South Australia. Joint project between Transport SA and the History Trust of South Australia.
• Roads, Highways, and Ecosystems - Multi-page illustrated essay on US roadmaking history.
• The Convict Trail - Illustrated history of the convict built road linking Sydney to the Hunter Valley.
• The Good Roads Movement Part II - Full text of article written by Charles Freeman Johnson, in Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, 1896.
• The Good Roads Movement, Part I - Full text of this essay written by Charles Freeman Johnson. From the Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, 1896.
• The Nicolson Pavement - Full text of this 1859 publication about a wooden pavement invented by Samuel Nicolson.
• The Turnpike Roads and Traffic up to 1830 - Article by J M Whiteley which first appeared in Diversion, the Lancashire County Council Surveyor's departmental magazine in July 1984.
• Ways and highways. The Statutes of New York - Complete text of this 1851 publication by William Bishop. Topics include highways, bridges, ferries, plank roads and turnpike roads.

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