Plank Road

A plank road or puncheon is a dirt path or road covered with a series of planks, similar to the wooden sidewalks one would see in a Western movie. Plank roads were very popular in Ontario, the U.S. Northeast and U.S. Midwest in the first half of the 19th century. They were often built by turnpike companies.

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Famous quotes containing the words plank and/or road:

    “Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The road became a channel running flocks
    Of glossy birds like ripples over rocks.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)