• Centre Turnpike, also known as the Reading-Sunbury Road, was an early United States turnpike located in Pennsylvania. It followed the path of the King's...
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    opened in 1812 by Richard Yarnall and was strategically located on the Centre Turnpike (also known as the Reading-Sunbury Road or Old Reading Road) halfway...
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    northern terminus. PA 61 roughly follows the alignment of the Centre Turnpike, a turnpike from Reading to Sunbury that was completed in 1814. The road...
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    postal designation in Berks County, preceded only by Reading. The Centre Turnpike was created in 1812, running between the Reading and Pottsville. Hamburg...
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    At this point, PA 895 turns east for a concurrency with PA 61 on Centre Turnpike, a four-lane divided highway with a Jersey barrier, passing through...
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    present-day alignment of PA 61. The road left Port Clinton and became Centre Turnpike, crossing the Little Schuylkill River before it reached a junction...
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    Toll road (redirect from Turnpike Road)
    A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a freeway since the 1940s) for which a fee (or toll) is assessed...
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    Marble Arch (redirect from Tyburn turnpike)
    Square 20 Fenchurch Street 122 Leadenhall Street Broadgate Tower Citigroup Centre (London) The Gherkin Heron Tower The Shard St George Wharf Tower Tower 42...
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    original turnpike, as its original path directly up the hill ahead proved too difficult for transportation. The earlier route still exists as Centre Ave.)...
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    The Union Turnpike was one of over 60 toll roads in operation throughout Massachusetts in the first half of the 19th century. In the early part of 1803...
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