The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, first used in 1795, is the first long-distance paved road built in the United States, according to engineered...
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Main Line, it runs northwest from Center City Philadelphia parallel to Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, also known as U.S. Route 30. The railroad first...
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cross the state. The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike opened between Lancaster and Philadelphia in 1794, the first successful turnpike in the United States...
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Coatesville is approximately 39 miles west of Philadelphia. It developed along the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike beginning in the late 18th century. It...
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parts of the world. The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, opened in 1795 between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the first...
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originally part of a turnpike called the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike that was completed in 1794. The state took over the turnpike at the beginning...
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Pennsylvania, Lancaster County has given rise to many improvements in transportation, such as the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, later part of...
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Pennsylvania Route 462 (redirect from King Street (Lancaster))
route east of Lancaster was built as a turnpike called the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike in 1794, which headed east to Philadelphia. By 1796, a road...
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Indian and Mill Creek in 1704 became part of Blockley Township and in 1795 were connected to Philadelphia via the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, what...
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was the former Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, which connected the cities of Lancaster and Philadelphia. Opened in 1795, the turnpike was paved with...
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William Bingham (category Politicians from Philadelphia)
from 1793 through 1794. He built roads and a bridge from Philadelphia to Lancaster, Pennsylvania called the Lancaster Pike. By 1795, he was elected to the...
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Paoli, Pennsylvania (category Philadelphia Main Line)
45th and final toast at a Saint Patrick's Day celebration.[when?][citation needed] The inn's location on the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, about...
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Year Without a Summer (redirect from Eighteen hundred and froze to death)
"Commencement of the Turnpike and Bridge Era", 1888: 27 notes that the very first artificial road was the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, 1792–1795, a single...
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Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, Philadelphia 1795 — First turnpike in the United States, Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike 1796 — First suspension bridge...
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Southern Beltway extension Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike U.S. Route 1 in Pennsylvania including...
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note are the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike and Baltimore Pike, now known as Lancaster Ave and Baltimore Ave. Additionally, Philadelphia's historic Market...
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Downingtown, Pennsylvania (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
It was an early westward road in the wagon days as the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. The Lincoln Highway was the first paved road to cross the...
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driving in the United States was passed in 1792 and applied to the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. Massachusetts formalized RHT in 1821. However,...
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Public–private partnership (redirect from Design build finance and operate)
includes the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike road in Pennsylvania, which was initiated in 1792, an early steamboat line between New York and New Jersey...
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania (category Unincorporated communities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania)
Highway), part of the original Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. In the Salisbury Township portion of Kinzers is the Rough and Tumble Engineers Historical...
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Great Wagon Road (redirect from Philadelphia Wagon Road)
Historical Society. OCLC 1536295. Kerr, Richard D. (2013). The Lancaster Road and Turnpike (PDF). Haverford Township Historical Society. Archived from the...
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abandoned and replaced in 1850 with a new alignment roughly following the route of the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike (now Lancaster Avenue) and including...
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of Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The turnpike was populated by businesses over time and forms the modern Lancaster Avenue. Lancaster Avenue...
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Strasburg, Pennsylvania (category Boroughs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania)
was the main path connecting Philadelphia with areas to the west, but in 1792 the new Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike was built, bypassing Strasburg...
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Interstate 476 (redirect from Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike)
Delaware and Montgomery counties in the suburban Philadelphia area, and the tolled, 110.6-mile (178.0 km) Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which...
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originally part of a turnpike called the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike that was completed in 1794. The state took over the turnpike in the beginning...
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PRR main line opened from Philadelphia to Malvern (the end of the West Chester Railroad) in 1832 and from Malvern to Lancaster in 1834. A short piece of...
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follows Old Lancaster Road in Bryn Mawr where it is briefly concurrent with Lancaster Avenue (then called “the turnpike”) and follows Old Lancaster Road again...
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originally known as "High Street," and this floating bridge was the final link in the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. When the directors of the Schuylkill...
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John Ewing (pastor) (redirect from John Ewing (1732-1802), Philadelphia pastor and university provost)
House Yard and assisting with the routing of the boundary line for the state of Delaware and the path for the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike. He joined...
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