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Publisher:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Width of road: 13 ft. Travelled way: width 12 ft., grade 5 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 4 in., mud 6 in. deep, soft, very badly rutted material: dirt and large stones sides: right, slopes up from gutter, left, slopes up from gutter then down gutters: right, 8 in. deep, left, 6 in. deep sidewalks: right, none, left, none. Remarks: A heavily loaded team could not pull through such deep mud. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.
