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Road west from Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., 1902. Built by Turnpike Company in 1862. STONE WHEEL-TRACKS.

Identifier: cityroadspavemen00juds Title: City roads and pavements suited to cities of moderate size. Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Judson, William Pierson, 1849-1925 Subjects: Streets Pavements Roads Publisher: New York : The Engineering news publishing company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: 5 ft. of large cobble pavement. 18 in. ti)24 in. wide,4 in lo 5 in. thick. Road from Albany west to Schenectady, X. Y., 1901.Built by Turnpike Company in 1834.

Text Appearing After Image: 5 in. w iile, 3 in. deep 6 in. thick Road west from Kingston, Ulster Co., X. Y., 1902.Built b} Turnpike Company in 1S62. STONE WHEEL-TRACKS.22 STONE WHEKL-TRACKS. broken have from time to time been re})lacecl l3v oldblue-stone curbs from Albany. About 1862, a system of similar wheel-track roadswas begun in Ulster County, N. Y., when I)a\isWinne built a blue-stone track-way as a toll-road fromKingston eight miles up the Delaware and UlsterValley to the blue-stone quarries in the Catskill moun-tains. This proved to be so successful that branches,and other roads of the same sort, were soon built andare still in decreasing use. The ease of traction on these smooth slabs led toan increase of the loads drawn upon them, until eighttons has been and is an ordinary load for two horses tobring from the quarries in the hills to the wharves atKingston and Rondout. Loads of twelve to fourteeiitons drawn by three horses are now of daily occurence,and loads of seventeen tons actual weight have some-

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