1. Roads and Bridges

• Old roads unimproved, lacked bridges
• Lancaster Turnpike 1794 - 62 miles
  • 1st link in Forbes Road to Pittsburg - map
  • organized as a toll road corporation
• National Road 1802
  • to Vandalia by 1850
  • financed by 5% land sales
• arch-truss bridge by T. Burr 1804
  • history and pictures of the covered bridge
  • The Permanent Bridge over Schuykill 340 ft.
• 64% of 2000 corp. in Pa. were transportation
• allowed by Supreme Court to operate in other states
  • Bank of Augusta case 1839
• protected from state-chartered monopolies
  • Charles River Bridge case 1837