Sentence examples for plank company from inspiring English sources

In 1848 and 1850, the Michigan government determined it was too expensive to maintain the road, and therefore turned it over to a private plank company who kept it up, in return for tolls to travel on it.

In 1861, during Jordan & Skaneateles Plank Road Company vs. Morley, the company sued Morley for evading the toll in Elbridge.

On April 17 , 1866 the plank road company was bought out by the Skaneateles Railroad Company.

And is the Walk the Plank theatre company really the most important thing to invest in at a time like this?

It's one of Without Walls' commissions, which push up standards of work in this country, with others including Wired Aerial's Tango, Prodigal Theatre's Urban Playground, Motionhouse's Underground and Gulliver's Boom Box, a collaboration between Walk the Plank and Company Fierce.

Although the plank road company lasted less than two decades, it had its share of controversy.

The case was closed in support of the motion and the plank road company shut down forever.

Chartered in 1855, the Jordan and Skaneateles Plank Road Company was set to provide a plank road from Jordan southward to Skaneateles.

In 1866, the Legislature granted another charter, this time creating the Skaneateles Railroad and its corporation, which bought out most of the plank road company.

In 1855, the road from Marcellus to Camillus along the Nine Mile Creek route was improved by the Camillus and Marcellus Plank Road Company, which was first chartered in 1853 and authorized to collect tolls from travelers using the road.

Two competing plank road companies were formed, the Black Creek Plank Road Company (of which Williams was a principal investor) and the Sarnia to Florence Plank Road Company, both of which aimed their roads through Oil Springs.