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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Leicester 39 --Caption title. Width of road: 56 ft. Traveled way: width 45 ft., grade 0 ft. per 100. Surface: flat, soft with loose sand 4 in. deep, car tracks on left material: sand on gravel bed sides: right, grass, bushes, slopes up from travelled way, left, slopes up from gutter, natural slope gutters: right, none, left, 3 in. deep on either side of car track sidewalks: right, none, left, none. Remarks: Car tracks are higher than travelled way and prevent water from flowing off. Team drawing 1 1/2 cords of wood requires 4 horses, showing poor condition of road Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.
