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A plank road is a road composed of wooden planks or puncheon logs, as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground...8 KB (968 words) - 08:52, 23 January 2024
The Old Plank Road is a plank road in Imperial County, California, that was built in 1915 as an east–west route over the Algodones Dunes. It effectively...7 KB (848 words) - 13:35, 2 April 2024- 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...25 KB (3,005 words) - 03:51, 24 May 2024
and Major General Winfield S. Hancock's Union II Corps on the Orange Plank Road. Fighting, which ended for the evening because of darkness, was fierce...105 KB (11,834 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2024
operate against the Boydton Plank Road and South Side Railroad. The initial Union advance on October 27 gained the Boydton Plank Road, a major campaign objective...98 KB (13,384 words) - 14:56, 8 July 2024
The Battle of Boydton Plank Road (also known as Burgess Mill or First Hatcher's Run), fought on October 27–28, 1864, followed the Union Army's successful...9 KB (903 words) - 17:04, 5 July 2024- Paterson Plank Road is a road that runs through Passaic, Bergen and Hudson Counties in northeastern New Jersey. The route, originally laid in the colonial...15 KB (1,268 words) - 17:54, 25 July 2024
The Hackensack Plank Road, also known as Bergen Turnpike, was a major artery which connected the cities of Hoboken and Hackensack, New Jersey. Like its...9 KB (990 words) - 01:52, 11 May 2024
Petersburg Plank Road" leading to Petersburg. This 80-mile (130-km) Plank road was covered with wooden planks, making it superior to other roads which were...12 KB (1,001 words) - 18:27, 6 May 2024- The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, also known as the First Battle of the Weldon Railroad, took place during the American Civil War fought June 21–23,...14 KB (1,655 words) - 23:01, 18 April 2024
Seagrove, North Carolina (section Plank Road)pottery museum. Construction of Plank Road began in 1849. Plank Road extended 129 miles (208 km) and was made of planks 8 feet (2.4 m) long, 9 to 16 inches...13 KB (1,412 words) - 01:26, 26 August 2024
Westham, Virginia (section Westham Plank Road)1851 the Virginia General Assembly chartered the Westham Plank Road Company to build a plank road from Westham to Richmond. This connected not only the Bateaux...10 KB (780 words) - 05:32, 30 July 2023
Chang'an, this road employed the plank road technique to secure pathways across cliffs and steep ravines. The construction of gallery roads was tailored...5 KB (607 words) - 18:10, 6 June 2024- Old Plank Road Trail may refer to: Old Plank Road Trail (Wisconsin), a trail in Fond du Lac County and Sheboygan County in Wisconsin Old Plank Road Trail...255 bytes (73 words) - 07:07, 17 November 2023
"Weston Plank Road", a toll road of planks. The Weston Plank Road extended from Dundas Street north to Musson's Bridge over the Humber, where Albion Road began...10 KB (997 words) - 14:19, 24 June 2024
the gallery roads, consisting of wooden planks erected on wooden or stone beams slotted into holes cut into the sides of cliffs. The roads join three adjacent...52 KB (6,250 words) - 21:52, 13 August 2024- a plank road was constructed of wooden planks laid side-to-side on a roadbed. Similar roads, the Bergen Point Plank Road, the Hackensack Plank Road and...7 KB (762 words) - 01:11, 26 March 2024
Confederate supply lines to Petersburg, the South Side Railroad and the Boydton Plank Road, and possibly cut off all routes of retreat from Richmond and Petersburg...126 KB (17,300 words) - 14:54, 5 June 2024
sides of the Plank Road. The advance south of the road reached as far as the churchyard, but was driven back. The attack north of the road could not break...109 KB (14,187 words) - 00:10, 26 April 2024- The Greenville and Raleigh Plank Road was a corporate Plank road from Greenville, North Carolina to the state capital in Raleigh, North Carolina. Established...9 KB (1,194 words) - 08:04, 15 March 2023
- has an article on: plank road Wikipedia plank road (plural plank roads) A road paved with planks (or puncheons that resemble planks from above): sometimes
- a plank road,' etc., the twenty-first and twenty-second sections of which, quoted in the bill, purport to incorporate the Northwestern Plank-Road Company
- On The Road, written in 1951 and published in 1957, is an autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac. They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I
- and early 1850s, there was also a boom in the construction of plank roads. Plank roads were financed by residents of declining rural townships, again