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The Old Plank Road is a plank road in Imperial County, California, that was built in 1915 as an east–west route over the Algodones Dunes.It effectively connected the extreme lower section of Southern California to Arizona and provided the last link in a commercial route between San Diego and Yuma.
A plank road is a road composed of wooden planks or puncheon logs, as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground. Plank roads have been built since antiquity, and were commonly found in the Canadian province of Ontario as well as the Northeast and Midwest of the United States in the first half of the 19th ...
A plank road. The Plank Road Boom was an economic boom in the United States that lasted from 1844 to the mid 1850s, largely in the Eastern United States and New York.In the span of ten years, over 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of plank road were built in New York—enough road to go from Manhattan to California—and more than 10,000 miles (16,000 km) of plank road were built countrywide.
The asphalt road was constructed through the valley as the main east–west route, and was open by 1927. [27] Another road was constructed in the early 1930s, to remove curves and widen the lanes. [32] The result was a two-lane road that still had many switchbacks, with one popularly known as "Dead Man's Curve". [37]
East of the CA 74/U.S. 395 junction, from Romoland-east, was CA 740 (Florida Avenue). The western portion of Route 74 in Orange County follows San Juan Creek and is named the Ortega Highway, after the Spanish explorer Sgt. José Francisco Ortega who led the scouts of the 1769 Portola expedition, first non-natives to ever see the area.
San Joaquin Hills Toll Road; San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor; Santa Ana Freeway; California State Route 1; California State Route 22; California State Route 39; California State Route 55; California State Route 57; California State Route 72; California State Route 73; California State Route 74; California State Route 90; California ...
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State Route 261 (SR 261) is a state highway that forms part of the Eastern Transportation Corridor toll road system in Orange County, California that is operated by the Transportation Corridor Agencies. It runs from Walnut Avenue and Jamboree Road in Irvine north to SR 241. North of this interchange, SR 241 becomes part of the Eastern ...