Old Plank Road

Circa 1840's

The plank road was constructed of large pine logs, sawed lengthwise and laid round-side down. Daniel Pratt built the road for public benefit and to provide transportation from the Pratt Cotton Gin Factory to Washington on the Alabama River. ...

1849 Plank Road

Route of a toll road from

Amsterdam to Fish House. It

linked the rural economy of

the Sacandaga Vly to rail

& canal access in Amsterdam

Marker is on South 2nd Ave 0.1 miles south of West Main Street ...

Struggle on the Orange Plank Road

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

Crisis at the Crossroads

Crises followed one after another on May 5. No sooner had Grant and Meade learned about Ewell's approach on the Orange Turnpike than they discovered General A.P. Hill's corps moving up the Orange Plank road. ...

Plank Road Pioneer Barn

This barn was built by an early settler in 1853 was used by regional farmers driving cattle to the Milwaukee market over the Milwaukee-Watertown Plank Road. It was moved from the Plank road area east of the Rock River to ...

Old Plank Road

Schoharie to Albany

Followed this Route

Chartered 1849

Abandoned 1867

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (New York Route 146) and Schoharie Plank Road East, on the right when traveling west on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Plank Road Foreman

This statue of a Plank Road Foreman is dedicated to the establishment of the City of High Point and in honor of the men and women who worked in local industries and businesses that made it famous.

In the 1840’s and ...

The Plank Road

The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road was constructed in the late 1850’s, stretching 129 miles long and covering what is now High Point’s Main Street. In 1852, when the North Carolina Railroad Company surveyed the proposed rail route from Goldsboro ...

Plank Roads

Fayetteville was the focal point for five plank roads, chartered 1849-52. The longest was built to Bethania, 129 miles northwest.

Marker is on Green Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Plank Road

A section of the Fayette-

ville – Salem plank road,

a toll road 129 miles

long, built 1849 – 1854,

followed this route.

Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street (U.S. 311 Bus) and W High Avenue, on the right when traveling south ...

Horror on the Orange Plank Road

The Battle of the Wilderness

Some of the Civil War's heaviest fighting occurred along the Orange Plank Road on May 5 and 6, 1864. One of two major roads passing through the Wilderness, the Plank Road became a magnet for both ...