The corporation was revived in December 1856 as the Crescent City Plank Road and Turnpike Company, began construction of a plank road in 1857, and opened the road in May 1858.
Scenes of boys devising plans and beginning to build an orb-shaped construction of wood planking over a metal armature are interspersed with views of ordinary life.
She demonstrated her concern for parking security on Westerbury Road by making a few minor alterations to the construction of wooden planks and road cones she uses to protect the space outside Errol's house.
Its artistry is in the pathways the building makes through its subtly different galleries, in which you are repeatedly returned to views of the surrounding city, and in a suggestion (again subtle) that the construction is of planks and boards, as if the concrete were petrified wood.
The Michigan Legislature authorized the construction of a private plank road with tolls to connect Detroit with Pontiac in 1848.
The building itself, from 1840, is a fine example of plank construction, in which two-by-fours are piled horizontally one atop the other for a costly but well-insulated structure.
Yet the breakfast room furniture was dead simple, the table of plank construction on sawhorses, enameled white and studded with black nailheads.
In 1848, the Pennsylvania State Legislature approved and chartered construction of a brand new plank road in the valley, to be called the Tioga and Elmira Plank Road, following the alignments of current-day Route 287, Pennsylvania Route 328 and New York State Route 328 to Elmira, New York.
This originated in the Mediterranean basin; possibly it evolved from the older edge-fastened plank construction of the Egyptians.
A few years back, the man told Dashkevich, local officials unloaded truckloads of construction materials — wood planks, bags of cement — in the center of the park, as if in advance of starting work.
