With the cooperation of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Shank describes in detail the evolution of the state's roads. He starts with Indian trails at the time of the Penn Grant and moves along through pack-horse trails and numerous other types of roads, including military, corduroy, plank, stone-surfaced, brick and concrete. His journey ends with today's limited-access expressways and includes plenty of maps, drawings, photos and human inteest stories.
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William H. Shank, Professional Engineer and Lehigh University Graduate, has been authoring books on transportation history in his native state of Pennsylvania for over 40 years. He was instrumental in founding the Pennsylvania Canal Society and the American Canal Society. A leading authority in his field, he has authored 8 books on canal and Pennsylvania transportation history and has also lectured extensively throughout the Northeast. In 1973 he founded his own publishing company, the American Canal & Transportation Center.
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It is hard for us today to visualize our Pennsylvania, just a few centuries ago, as a densely-wooded forest area, thinly populated with the first native Americans-living, for the most part, along the rivers of the State. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, National Road, William Penn, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Keystone Shortway, Butler Plank Road, New Jersey, Delaware River, George Washington, Lancaster County, Lincoln Highway, Pennsylvania Indians, French-Indian War, Ohio River, Raystown Path, Allegheny River, Eighteenth Century, Fort Duquesne, Fort Pitt, Great Britain, Henry Ford, Laurel Hill, New England, Ordinary Bicycle New!
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It is hard for us today to visualize our Pennsylvania, just a few centuries ago, as a densely-wooded forest area, thinly populated with the first native Americans-living, for the most part, along the rivers of the State. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turnpike companies, plank road Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, National Road, William Penn, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Keystone Shortway, Butler Plank Road, New Jersey, Delaware River, George Washington, Lancaster County, Lincoln Highway, Pennsylvania Indians, French-Indian War, Ohio River, Raystown Path, Allegheny River, Eighteenth Century, Fort Duquesne, Fort Pitt, Great Britain, Henry Ford, Laurel Hill, New England, Ordinary Bicycle New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Historic Bridges of Pennsylvania by William H. Shank in Front Matter, page 36, and Back Matter
- Amazing Pennsylvania Canals by W. H. Shank in Front Matter, page 42, and Back Matter
- Indian Paths of Pennsylvania by Paul A. W. Wallace in Front Matter, and page 7
- Three Hundred Years With the Pennsylvania Traveler by William H. Shank in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Great Floods of Pennsylvania by William H. Shank in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Three Hundred Years With the Pennsylvania Traveler by William H. Shank in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Historic Bridges of Pennsylvania by William H. Shank in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pennsylvania Transportation History by W. H. Shank in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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