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Author Jaffe, Eric.

Title The King's best highway : the lost history of the Boston post road, the route that made America / Eric Jaffe.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  338.1097 JAFFE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  388.1 JAFFE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  388.1097 JAFFE    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  388.1 JAF    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  974 JAF    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  388.10974 JAFFE    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  388.1097 JAFFE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  388.10974 JAFFE    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  388.10974 JAF    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  388.1097 JAFFE    Check Shelf

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description ix, 322 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-309).
Contents From Indian path to post road -- The "ordinary way" -- Of fidelity and fate -- Benjamin Franklin, postman -- Inflammatory papers and tavern politicians -- The general and the blacksmith -- Setting the business in motion -- The railroad as highway -- The great Boston-New York rivalry -- Toward union -- Barnum, Morgan, and New England's "invisible government" -- The nation's road standard -- Colonel Pope and the good roads movement -- "Rocks, ruts, and thank-you-marms" -- Highway Route 1, relocated -- Changing the face of America -- Cruising the BPR.
Subject Boston Post Roads -- History.
Post roads -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History.
Post roads -- New York Region -- History.
Boston (Mass.) -- Relations -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Relations -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Roads -- United States -- History.
Transportation -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Transportation and state -- United States -- History.
Social change -- United States -- History.
ISBN 9781416586142 hardcover
1416586148 hardcover
9781416586159 trade pbk.
1416586156 trade pbk.
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