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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Springfield 79 --Caption title. Width of road: 60 ft. Traveled way: width 42 ft., grade 0 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 8 in., paved car track in centre, loose gravel and sandstone dust 1 1/2 in. deep material: red sandstone on rubble stone and gravel base sides: right, slopes up to sidewalk 18 in., left, slopes up to sidewalk 14 in. gutters: right, 8 in. deep, left, 8 in. deep sidewalks: right, 9 ft. wide, 18 in. above gutter, left, 9 ft wide, 14 in. above gutter. Remarks: Right side is not so good as left side, but will be as soon as new gravel is worn down. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.
