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Publisher:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Width of road: 38 ft. Travelled way: width 6 ft., grade 0 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 1 ft., uneven, soft, loose sand and gravel, ruts 10 in. deep material: sand and coarse gravel sides: right, slopes up from gutter, left, slopes up from gutter gutters: right, 3 ft. deep, left, 2 ft. 6 in. deep sidewalks: right, none, left, none. Remarks: Road is all covered with ruts where teams have turned out. Road is so uneven that water stands in ruts.. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.