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Publisher:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth
Notes:
Width of road: 44 ft. Travelled way: width 28 ft., grade 0 ft. per 100. Surface: crowned 9 in., frozen hard, uneven, covered with ruts material: sand and loam frozen sides: right, slopes up from gutter 14 in., left, slopes up from gutter 9 in. gutters: right, 10 in. deep, left, 9 in. deep sidewalks: right, none, left, none. Remarks: A wagon would sink in deeply if road was not frozen. Photograph accompanies the Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth, 1893.