Directory of Roads Resources

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This category is for listing sites about the history of road construction and the engineers that built the roads.

Subcategories

• Ancient
• McAdam, John Loudon
• Metcalfe, John
• Telford, Thomas

Resources in This Category

• Ancient and Modern Highways

  http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=AFJ3026-0023-108
  Full text of illustrated essay by Charles Livy Whittle, The New England Magazine, February 1898.

• Coaching Days and the Road Engineers

  http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/coaching.htm
  Discusses roads in Britain and the United States during the canal age. Written by J. B. Calvert.

• Edward de Smedt

  http://www.famousbelgians.net/desmedt.htm
  Short biography of the inventor of modern road asphalt in 1870. Also includes a short commentary on the history of roads and asphalt.

• First American Macadam Road

  http://curbstone.com/_macadam.htm
  Illustrated essay on this road laid on the Boonsborough Turnpike Road between Hagerstown and Boonsboro, Maryland in 1823.

• Highways - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century

  http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=2959
  Detailed historical information, timelines, and personal essays by key innovators on highway construction within the United States.

• Namibian Roads in History

  http://www.klausdierks.com/Namibian_Roads/
  Illustrated history and development of the roads system from the 13th century till today.

• Pittsburgh-Stoyestown Turnpike

  http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pitttext;cc=pitttext;sid=632389ae6b1875774a6c072d17517ccb;rgn=full+text;idno=00aft0809m;view=image;seq=0005
  Story of its building and use by John N. Boucher published in 1911.

• Public Roads, their Improvement and Maintenanc

  http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umlib;idno=umlr000059
  Full text of this book by E.R.Buckley first published in 1907.

• Roads, Highways, and Ecosystems

  http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntuseland/essays/roads.htm
  Multi-page illustrated essay on US roadmaking history.

• The Convict Trail - Caring for the Great North Road

  http://greatnorthroad.com.au/
  Illustrated history of the convict built road linking Sydney to the Hunter Valley. Australia.

• The Good Roads Movement Part II

  http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;q1=The+Good+Roads+Movement;rgn=full+text;view=image;cc=moajrnl;seq=0448;idno=ahj1472.2-28.166;node=ahj1472.2-28.166:13
  Full text of article written by Charles Freeman Johnson, in Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, 1896.

• The Good Roads Movement, Part I

  http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;q1=The+Good+Roads+Movement;rgn=full+text;view=image;cc=moajrnl;seq=0253;idno=ahj1472.2-28.165;node=ahj1472.2-28.165:2
  Full text of this essay written by Charles Freeman Johnson. From the Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, 1896.

• The Nicolson Pavement

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJR3196
  Full text of this 1859 publication about a wooden pavement invented by Samuel Nicolson.

• Ways and highways. The Statutes of New York

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJS1886
  Complete text of this 1851 publication by William Bishop. Topics include highways, bridges, ferries, plank roads and turnpike roads.

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