Plank road — A plank road or puncheon is a dirt path or road covered with a series of planks, similar to the wooden sidewalks one would see in a Western movie. Plank roads were wildly popular in the U.S. Northeast and U.S. Midwest in the first half of the… … Wikipedia
plank road — A road of a kind no longer in use but familiar in the early days of the country, characterized by the use of planks or slabs of timber as a surface of the traveled portion of the way in marshy sections otherwise impassable … Ballentine's law dictionary
plank road — noun : a road built of planks laid crosswise on longitudinal timbers and widely used in the United States in the mid 19th century … Useful english dictionary
Old Plank Road — The Old Plank Road is a plank road in Imperial County, California that was built in 1915 as an east–west route over the Algodones Dunes. It effectively connected the extreme lower section of Southern California to Arizona and provided the last… … Wikipedia
Paterson Plank Road — is a road that runs through Passaic, Bergen and Hudson Counties in northeastern New Jersey originally lain in the colonial era. The route, connecting the city Paterson and the Hudson River waterfront, still exists. It has largely been superseded… … Wikipedia
Newark Plank Road — The Newark Plank Road was a major 19th century artery between New Jersey s Hudson Waterfront and the burgeoning city of Newark, further inland across the New Jersey Meadows. As its name suggests, a plank road was constructed of wooden planks laid … Wikipedia
Hackensack Plank Road — On Shippen Street off of Hackensack Plank Road. The Hackensack Plank Road was a major artery which connected the cities of Hoboken and Hackensack, New Jersey Like its cousin routes, the Newark Plank Road and Paterson Plank Road, it travelled over … Wikipedia
Battle of Boydton Plank Road — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of the Boydton Plank Road caption= partof=American Civil War date=October 27 ndash; October 28, 1864 place=Petersburg, Virginia result=Inconclusive combatant1= flagicon|USA|1863 United States (Union)… … Wikipedia
Old Plank Road Trail — The Old Plank Road Trail is a 21 mile (34 km) long public rail trail in Cook County and Will County within the U.S. state of Illinois. It stretches westward from Chicago Heights to Joliet, serving fast growing suburbs such as Frankfort and… … Wikipedia
Fayetteville and Western Plank Road — The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road was a 129 mi plank road from Fayetteville, NC to the Moravian settlement at Bethania, NC. [cite web | url = http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/70/entry | title = Fayetteville and Western Plank … Wikipedia
