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Fayetteville and Western Plank Road Historical Marker, Bethania, NC. The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road was a 129 mi (208 km) plank road from Fayetteville, NC to the Moravian settlement at Bethania, NC. [1] The road was constructed from 1851-1852 using funds raised by boosters and accompanying funds provided by the state of North Carolina.
The plank road was established to Wilson, North Carolina by 1857, but by 1861 the corporation would go bankrupt. It never was constructed from Wilson to Raleigh as planned. Competition from the railroads, expenses in laying and maintaining the plank road, and the outbreak of the American Civil War all contributed to the demise of this enterprise.
U.S. Route 1 in Virginia follows the Boydton Plank Road from Petersburg southwards to just north of the North Carolina line. On the U.S. West Coast the Canyon Road of Portland, Oregon was another important but short artery and was built between 1851 and 1856. A plank road on one of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska
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 route of the Greenville and Raleigh Plank Road, which was established in 1853, became part of the route of US 264 between Greenville and Wilson, North Carolina. Although no longer maintained after the company went bankrupt in 1861, the route was still used as an unpaved track and Right of way by horse and motor traffic.
Cameron is a town in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. ... Cameron grew up around a plank road that was followed in later years by a railroad. The town was ...
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The road carried horseback riders, wagons, and stagecoaches. A toll of one cent per mile (1.6 km) was charged for a wagon and four horses. Toll revenues declined after construction of the railroad, and by 1862 much of Plank Road was abandoned. Parts of North Carolina Highway 705 follow the Plank Road route.