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National Road
(Encyclopedia)National Road, U.S. highway built in the early 19th cent. At the time of its construction, the National Road was the most ambitious road-building project ever undertaken in the United States. It final...road
(Encyclopedia)road, strip of land used for transportation. The history of roads has been related to the centralizing of populations in powerful cities, which the roads have served for military purposes and for trad...Cumberland Road
(Encyclopedia)Cumberland Road: see National Road. ...Wilderness Road
(Encyclopedia)Wilderness Road, principal avenue of westward migration for U.S. pioneers from c.1790 to 1840, blazed in 1775 by the American frontiersman Daniel Boone and an advance party of the Transylvania Company...macadam road
(Encyclopedia)macadam road məkădˈəm [key]: see pavement. ...Ledo Road
(Encyclopedia)Ledo Road: see Burma Road.Latin Road
(Encyclopedia)Latin Road: see Roman roads.Burma Road
(Encyclopedia)Burma Road, in China and Myanmar, extending from the railhead of Lashio, Myanmar, to Kunming, Yunnan prov., China. About 700 mi (1,130 km) long and constructed through rough mountain country, it was a...toll road
(Encyclopedia)toll road: see turnpike.pike, road
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