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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 ...
The Old Plank Road Trail is a 37.6-mile (60.5 km) shared-use path in Fond du Lac County and Sheboygan County in Wisconsin. [2] It runs for approximately 21 miles (34 km) in Sheboygan County before entering Fond du Lac County, bordering Wisconsin Highway 23 (WIS 23) the entire way.
Trenton Road, NY 12, Plank Road, Old Route 12 Yes [24] On the bed of the old Utica Turnpike Turin Plank Road December 27, 1847 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (8.9 km) Through Turin: NY 26: Yes [25] Brighton Plank Road December 30, 1847 3 + 2 ⁄ 3 miles (5.9 km) Rochester line - Brighton: NY 96: Yes [26] Glens Falls and Lake George Plank Road January 4 ...
Pages in category "Plank road" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Old Plank Road; Old Plank Road Trail (Illinois) Østmarka; P.
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.
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The Old Plank Road Trail is a 22-mile-long (35 km) public rail trail in Cook County and Will County within the U.S. state of Illinois. It stretches westward from Chicago Heights to Joliet , serving suburbs such as Frankfort and New Lenox .