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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1927 quote.
Quotations
1807
. . . turnpike road.
1852
The traveller . . . passes along on that smooth turnpike road that leads from Coburg to Cold Springs, and . . . Gore's Landing. . . .
1927
In building a turnpike the road allowance was cleared and the stumps removed, sometimes by a machine worked by horses. Ditches were dug on either side and the earth thrown up on the road to form a causeway; the surface was then levelled in a rude way. Drains were built where the ground was swampy and streams were spanned by bridges.