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The first turnpike road in England is reputed to have been created here at the end of the 17th century, Acts of Parliament were passed in 1696 and 1709, " For the repairing of the highway between Wymondham and Attleborough, in the County of Norfolk, and for including therein the road from Wymondham to Hethersett ".
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Enclosure was aided by the greatly enhanced access provided by the construction of the first turnpike roads over the moor: the road between Ashburton and Two Bridges opened in around 1800, for instance.
* English Parliament establishes the first turnpike trusts which place a length of road under the control of trustees drawn from local landowners and traders.
Shed Road, the first all-weather turnpike in the American South, was constructed in the 1870s and operated from 1874 – 1886.
(" The first of December was covered with snow, and so was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston ").
When the “ dual-dual ” setup of the turnpike was created, it first started in Edison Township, and continued north to Exit 14 in Newark.
The first was the Driscoll Expressway which was to start from the Garden State Parkway at exit 80 in South Toms River and end 3 miles north of exit 8A along the turnpike in South Brunswick.
The first was the Driscoll Expressway which was to start from the Garden State Parkway at exit 80 in Toms River and end 3 miles north of exit 8A along the turnpike in South Brunswick.
The first turnpike in Sand Lake was established about 1795, and extended from Albany to Berlin.
Samuel was still involved with the turnpike, so John later built the first part of his brother's house.
In 1808 he laid out the town lots, developed the community and provided impetus for construction of the nearby turnpike as its first president.
The Great Road became an authorized turnpike in 1785 and extended the turnpike system westward from Alexandria to Snicker's Gap, and beyond to Berryville and Winchester. 2 With the construction of this Turnpike in 1832, travel through Purcellville began to increase — the first stagecoach arrived in 1841.
At first the turnpike was considered a mistake, as it was built over hills and swamps and grass soon grew over the road bed.
Lee is located along Interstate 90 ( also known as the Massachusetts Turnpike ), and is home to Exit 2, the westernmost full exit on the turnpike ( Exit 1, in West Stockbridge, is only a turnaround exit ) as well as the first service area along the Pike.
Small-scale manufacture of pen knife and pocket knife developed in the early 19th century, The suburb became more accessible with the construction of first a turnpike from Sheffield to the terminus of the River Don Navigation at Tinsley, then the opening of the Sheffield Canal, running to the south of the village.
The first turnpike road through Burnley was begun in 1754, linking the town to Blackburn and Colne, and by the early 19th century there were daily stagecoach journeys to Blackburn, Skipton and Manchester, the last taking just over two hours.
Parts of the route now followed by the modern road, particularly the first section, was opened as a turnpike in the early part of the 18th century.
With the introduction of the first turnpike road in 1727 and the development of canals and later the railways came a big increase in population.
England's first turnpike ( toll ) road ran from Wadesmill to Ware.
The turnpike is named after the first chairman of the commission, James W. Shocknessy.
Several motorists attended a dedication ceremony, with over 1, 000 people joining a caravan, following a snow plow and a patrol cruiser, to become the first to drive the turnpike.
The first section of the old turnpike to be resurfaced with a wide macadam surface was from Washington Avenue just north of the center of Towson and the hamlet of Texas south of Cockeysville in 1913.
In 1736 the Parliament passed the first of several Acts to turn the road into a turnpike.
The former turnpike route was not assigned a route number in 1923 when the state first designated route numbers.
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The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.
In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.
A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.
At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.
A road had to be hacked through trackless forests between Hanover and Portsmouth to permit Governor Wentworth and a company of gentlemen to attend the first Dartmouth commencement in 1771.
While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.
No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.
Under Head Coach Norb Hecker they lost their first nine regular-season games in 1966 and secured their first victory on the road against the New York Giants.
* Affinity, Cambridge University Eco Racing's first vehicle and the UK's first road legal solar car
In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.
After the season ended, the Orioles showcased altered uniforms, with a circular ' Maryland ' patch added to the left-hand sleeve of all jerseys and the grey road jerseys displaying Baltimore across the chest for the first time since 1972.
* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).
The first message to reach Bonaparte regarding the disaster that had overtaken his fleet arrived on 14 August at his camp on the road between Salahieh and Cairo.
Jasmuheen stated that she failed on the first day of the test because the hotel room in which she was confined was located near a busy road, causing stress and pollution that prevented absorption of required nutrients from the air.
When the road reached Columbus, Tipton constructed the first bypass road ever built ; it detoured south around the west side of Columbus enroute to Seymour.
** Cumberland Road, a historical road, also called the Great National Pike and the National Road, the first United States federal highway
He won 5 races in 1995, including his first road course victory at Sears Point.
On October 16, 2011, the Cowboys wore their road blue jerseys against the New England Patriots for the first time since December 27, 2009, against the Redskins ; the Patriots defeated the Cowboys 20 – 16.
The first Ferrari road car was the 1947 125 S, powered by a 1. 5 L V12 engine ; Enzo Ferrari reluctantly built and sold his automobiles to fund Scuderia Ferrari.
Under the program's first phase ( 1983 – 86 ), the government allocated US $ 1. 5 billion, or 36 percent of total investment, for that purpose and an additional US $ 222 million in 1987 for road and rail rehabilitation.
The Takutu Bridge is seen as the first of several joint projects between Guyana and Brazil intended to facilitate cargo traffic: Brazil is expected to subsidize the paving of the Lethem-to-Georgetown road, a development that would have profound impacts on the area's economy and environment.
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