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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Chester 105 --Caption title. Width of road: 30 ft. Traveled way: width 12 ft., grade 2 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 4 in., uneven, soft with loose gravel and loam, ruts 6 in. deep material: gravel and loam on hard gravel base sides: right, covered with trees and bushes, slopes up, left, covered with trees and bushes, slopes up gutters: right, 9 in. deep, left, 11 in. deep sidewalks: right, none, left, none. Remarks: Below surface, gravel base is very hard and surface. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.