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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
West Brookfield 51 --Caption title. Width of road: 40 ft. Traveled way: width 24 ft., grade 2 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 6 in., uneven, soft with loose sand and stones 5 in. deep material: sand and coarse gravel sides: right, grass, slopes down into gutter, left, slopes down into gutter then slopes up gutters: right, 1 1/2 ft. deep 1 ft. lower than gutter, left, 6 in. deep sidewalks: right, none, left, none. Remarks: Road is in very poor condition. Ruts are so deep that water will run down in them rather than drain off at sides. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.