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Jan 1928
The History and Development of Road Building In the United States
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 92, Issue 1
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Between this Sesqui-Centennial Year (192G) and the founding of the first Colonial settlement at Jamestown, Va., the great event of l 77G stands almost at the mid-point of time. The men who gathered in Philadelphia to affix their signatures to.the Declaration of Independence looked back upon a period of American history a little longer than that which has since unfolded. At the end of their sesqui-Centennium the journeys they made from their several homes were only slightly less arduous and time-consuming than they would have been at its beginning, To-day-150 years later-the same journeys are made in hours instead of days, and days instead of weeks.
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© 1928 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1928
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Thomas H. MacDonald
Chf.; U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, Washington, D. C.
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