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Publisher:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Width of road: 30 ft. Travelled way: width 30 ft., grade 12 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 1 ft., soft, loose sand with small stones in it, ruts 14 in. deep material: gravel and sand sides: right, slopes down into gutter, then up, left, slopes down into gutter, then up gutters: right, 1 ft. deep, left, 6 in. deep sidewalks: right, none, left, none. Remarks: Road is poor, for sand is so deep and grade so heavy that a heavy load could not be hauled over it. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.
