Pinchot Roads: Paving the Way for Progress
Posted by Tyler Stump on Jul 24, 2023 in | Comments Off on Pinchot Roads: Paving the Way for Progress In the early years of travel, Pennsylvania’s roads were difficult and even dangerous to navigate. Margaret van Horn Dwight struggled to traverse the roads of Franklin County by carriage. She wrote in 1810, “I was so lame and so [tired] that for an hour I did not know but I must set down and die — I could not ride — the road was so bad, it was worse than walking.” A few weeks later she had a...read more