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	Highways - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century - http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=2959 Detailed historical information, timelines, and personal essays by key innovators on highway construction within the United States.
	Public Roads, their Improvement and Maintenanc - http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=umlib;idno=umlr000059 Full text of this book by E.R.Buckley first published in 1907.
	The Convict Trail - http://www.convicttrail.org Illustrated history of the convict built road linking Sydney to the Hunter Valley.
	Ancient and Modern Highways - http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=AFJ3026-0023-108 Full text of illustrated essay by Charles Livy Whittle, The New England Magazine, February 1898.
	Coaching Days and the Road Engineers - http://www.du.edu/~jcalvert/tech/coaching.htm Discusses roads in Britain and the United States during the canal age. Written by J. B. Calvert.

	Milestones For U.S. Highway Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration - http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/spring96/p96sp44.htm Illustrated time line of key events covering the period 1892 to 1996.
	A1 and The Great North Road - http://www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk/contents.htm History, geography and anything of interest about the development of the route between London and Edinburgh.
	Historic Highways - Lancashire - http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/historichighways/index.asp Comprehensive history. Topics include Roman roads, turnpike roads, and motorways. Includes gallery and forum.
	Roads, Highways, and Ecosystems - http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntuseland/essays/roads.htm Multi-page illustrated essay on US roadmaking history.
	Somerset Roads - http://www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ASH/Roads.htm Concise illustrated history of roads and turnpikes in the county.

	First American Macadam Road - http://curbstone.com/_macadam.htm Illustrated essay on this road laid on the Boonsborough Turnpike Road between Hagerstown and Boonsboro, Maryland in 1823.
	Edward de Smedt - http://www.famousbelgians.net/desmedt.htm Short biography of the inventor of modern road asphalt in 1870. Also includes a short commentary on the history of roads and asphalt.
	Roads Through History - http://www.history.sa.gov.au/chu/programs/sa_history/roads/introduction.htm Presents an illustrated record of the history of road-making across South Australia. Joint project between Transport SA and the History Trust of South Australia.
	The Turnpike Roads and Traffic up to 1830 - http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/historichighways/turnpike.asp Article by J M Whiteley which first appeared in Diversion, the Lancashire County Council Surveyor's departmental magazine in July 1984.
	Road Construction - http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/CS/SSB/history_center_road_construction.shtml Collection of historical photographs of road construction in Oregon.

	The Mullan Road - http://www.narhist.ewu.edu/mullan_road/mullan_home.html Constructed between 1858 and 1862, was the first wagon road to cross the Rockies to the Inland Northwest. History of its construction and early use.
	A History of Roads in the US using Athens as a Case Study - http://mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu/students/Brignac.htm Paper by Becky Brignac written in 1999, in the History Department, at the University of Georgia, to fulfill the senior writing requirement for completion of the history major.
	The Good Roads Movement Part II - http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;q1=The%20Good%20Roads%20Movement;rgn=full%20text;view=image;cc=moajrnl;seq=0448;idno=ahj1472.2-28.166;node=ahj1472.2-28.166%3A13 Full text of article written by Charles Freeman Johnson, in Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, 1896.
	Namibian Roads in History - http://www.klausdierks.com/Namibian_Roads/ Illustrated history and development of the roads system from the 13th century till today.
	The Good Roads Movement, Part I - http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;q1=The%20Good%20Roads%20Movement;rgn=full%20text;view=image;cc=moajrnl;seq=0253;idno=ahj1472.2-28.165;node=ahj1472.2-28.165%3A2 Full text of this essay written by Charles Freeman Johnson. From the Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, 1896.

	Pittsburgh-Stoyestown Turnpike - http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pitttext;cc=pitttext;sid=632389ae6b1875774a6c072d17517ccb;rgn=full%20text;idno=00aft0809m;view=image;seq=0005 Story of its building and use by John N. Boucher published in 1911.
	The Nicolson Pavement - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJR3196 Full text of this 1859 publication about a wooden pavement invented by Samuel Nicolson.
	Ways and highways. The Statutes of New York - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJS1886 Complete text of this 1851 publication by William Bishop. Topics include highways, bridges, ferries, plank roads and turnpike roads.

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