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Publisher:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Width of road: 35 ft. Travelled way: width 27 ft., grade 5 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 8 in., hard and fairly smooth material: gravel on stone foundation sides: right, slopes up to sidewalk, left, retaining wall rises vertically gutters: right, 9 in. deep, left, 8 in. deep sidewalks: right, 6 ft. wide, 10 in. above gutter, left, none. Remarks: A good gravel road. Before stone foundation was put in road was soft and muddy in wet weather. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.