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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
North Adams 136 --Caption title. Width of road: 25 ft. Traveled way: width 18 ft., grade 15 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 9 in., soft, loose sand and gravel 4 in. deep material:sand and gravel on ledge foundation sides: right, grass embankment slopes up to sidewalk, left, grass embankment slopes up to sidewalk gutters: right, 10 in. deep, left, 11 in. deep sidewalks: right, 3 ft. wide, 2 ft. above gutter, left, none. Remarks: A very poor road for grade is heavy. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.