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 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. (en)
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| - California
- Canada
- Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
- Scientific American
- 20 (number)
- Blissfield, Michigan
- Detroit
- Hudson River
- Paterson Plank Road
- Rio de Janeiro
- Robert Dale Owen
- United States
- Eastern United States
- Prairie Farmer
- Russia
- Saginaw, Michigan
- Chicago Democrat
- George Geddes (engineer)
- Clinton County, Michigan
- Epaphroditus Ransom
- Freehold Township, NJ
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Gratiot County, Michigan
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Bay County, Michigan
- Plank road
- Lincoln Highway
- Macadam
- Mackinaw City, Michigan
- Manhattan
- Zilwaukee, Michigan
- Fayetteville and Western Plank Road
- Barbacena
- Toronto
- Traverse City, Michigan
- Walter C. Newberry
- D'Arcy Boulton (Ontario politician)
- Fort Wayne, Indiana
- North Carolina
- Nova Friburgo
- Economic bubbles
- Hackensack Plank Road
- J. Young Scammon
- Chicago
- Keyport, New Jersey
- Sylvania, Ohio
- Syracuse, New York
- William Kingsford
- History of road transport
- Mark Twain
- Greenville and Raleigh Plank Road
- Indiana
- Michigan
- Midwestern United States
- New-York Tribune
- New Jersey
- New Jersey Route 79
- New York
- Ohio
- Economic boom
- New Jersey Meadowlands
- Washtenaw County, Michigan
- Newark Plank Road
- Plank road
- Milwaukee-Watertown Plank Road
- General incorporation law
- Port Huron
- Sir Francis Bond Head
- Lord Sydenham
- Niles' Weekly Register
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| - George Geddes (en)
- Philip P. Mason (en)
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| - Reference (en)
- Hunts Merchants' Magazine (en)
- The Plank Road Craze: A Chapter in the History of Michigan's Highways (en)
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| - That the road be two to
four rods wide, sixteen feet of which was to be a good, smooth, permanent road, well drained by ditches on either side. At least eight feet of the road was to be covered with plank three inches thick. The law provided further that no grades were to be greater than one in ten and that the charters were to run for sixty years. (en)
- In the list of great improvements which have given to this age the character which it will bear in history above all others-the age of happiness to the people-the plank road will have a prominent place, and it deserves it...the plank road is of the class of canals and railways. They are the three great inscriptions
graven on the earth by the hand of modern science... (en)
- Over that part of the road in Toronto, that wore out in eight years... It is found that the cost of repairs on a McAdam [macadam] road is easily greater than upon a plank road- without taking into account the great difference in the first cost. The McAdam road out from Toronto cost four hundred dollars every year to keep a mile in order... if the [plank] road is constructed, the repairs will be trifling until the road is worn out . (en)
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| - 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. (en)
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