Janesville Plank Road

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The Janesville Plank Road was one of 16 privately-owned toll roads authorized by Wisconsin’s Territorial legislature in 1848. The road was specified to follow a 65 mile route from Milwaukee through East Troy to Janesville. Its roadbed ...

Plank Road

The western terminus of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road, 129 miles in length, longest in North Carolina, built 1849-1854, was here.

Marker is at the intersection of Bethania Road and Main Street, on the right when traveling east on Bethania ...

Boydton and Petersburg Plank Road

A “Timbered Turnpike”

The Boydton and Petersburg Plank Road, built between 1851 and 1853, was the first all-weather route connecting Southside Virginia’s tobacco and wheat farms with the market. Pine and oak planks, 8 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 3-4 ...

Plank Road

This street is the route of the Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54.

Marker is at the intersection of South Fayetteville Street (Alternate U.S. 220) and Altantic Ave/County Club Drive, on the right when traveling south ...

Watertown Plank Road

Started in 1848 and completed in 1853, extended 58 miles west from Milwaukee on a course roughly paralleling State Street past the Frederick Miller Plank Road Brewery through Wauwatosa, Pewaukee, and Oconomowoc to Watertown. The $110,000 road of white oak ...

Boydton and Petersburg Plank Road

A “Timbered Turnpike”

The Boydton and Petersburg Plank Road, built between 1851 and 1853, was the first all-weather route connecting Southside Virginia’s tobacco and wheat farms with the market. Pine and oak planks, 8 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 3-4 ...

Plank Road

The western terminus of the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road, 129 miles in length, longest in North Carolina, built 1849-1854, was here.

Marker is at the intersection of Bethania Road and Main Street, on the right when traveling east on Bethania ...

The Plank Road

Planks, Mules, and Model Ts

The Plank Road once provided the only means of crossing the treacherous Imperial Sand Dunes. This historic road spurred settlement of Imperial County and development of San Diego at the start of the automobile age.

Marker can ...