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» 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.

» The Convict Trail - Illustrated history of the convict built road linking Sydney to the Hunter Valley.

» 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.

» 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 Good Roads Movement Part II - Full text of article written by Charles Freeman Johnson, in Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, 1896.

» 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.

» 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.

» Milestones For U.S. Highway Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration - Illustrated time line of key events covering the period 1892 to 1996.

» The Mullan Road - Constructed between 1858 and 1862, was the first wagon road to cross the Rockies to the Inland Northwest. History of its construction and early use.

» Namibian Roads in History - Illustrated history and development of the roads system from the 13th century till today.

» The Nicolson Pavement - Full text of this 1859 publication about a wooden pavement invented by Samuel Nicolson.

» 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.

» Road Construction - Collection of historical photographs of road construction in Oregon.

» Roads, Highways, and Ecosystems - Multi-page illustrated essay on US roadmaking history.

» 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.

» Somerset Roads - Concise illustrated history of roads and turnpikes in the county.

» 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.

» Wayne County, Michigan - Roads - Claim to be the birthplace of modern roads. Features the first concrete road, historic pictures, and wriiten road histories.

» 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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