A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the April 25, 1916 edition of the newspaper.
Highway Will Be Among The Best In Bucks
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The work of making the pike in East Bristol Township, between the Adams Hollow Bridge and the railroad siding at North Bristol, one of the best pieces of roadway in Bucks County began yesterday.
The work is being done under the supervision of E. H. Harvey, superintendent of Woodborune, and the foreman of the laborers doing the work is E. L. Saylor.
The roadway for a distance of 3,000 feet is to be of water-bound macadam with an asphalt top. The width is to be 18 feet and will exten from the outside rails of the trolley road to the curb line.
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Mr. Saylor says he has received instructions to make the road “one of the best pieces possible.”
He supervised the construction of the Lincoln Highway extending from Trenton to Fallsington to Morrisville. The way is considered one of the best sections of the Lincoln Highway system.
The force of men now employed are engaged in grading the sides and then the old road bed will be harrowed and spiked and the new one constructed.
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The highway in being built by the state department.
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