Lancaster Turnpike
road, Pennsylvania, United States
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- In road: The Lancaster Turnpike
The first engineered and planned road in the United States was the Lancaster Turnpike, a privately constructed toll road built between 1793 and 1795. Connecting Philadelphia and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, its 62-mile length had a maximum grade of 7 percent and was surfaced…
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