Plank Road
A plank road is a road composed of Plank (wood), wooden planks or wikt:puncheon#Noun, puncheon logs, as an efficient technology for traversing soft, marshy, or otherwise difficult ground. Plank roads have been built since antiquity, and were commonly found in the Canadian province of Ontario as well as the Northeastern United States, Northeast and Midwestern United States, Midwest of the United States in the first half of the 19th century. They were often built by toll road, turnpike companies. Origins The Wittmoor bog trackway is the name given to each of two historic plank roads or boardwalks, trackway No. I being discovered in 1898 and trackway No. II in 1904 in the ''Wittmoor'' bog in northern Hamburg, Germany. The trackways date to the 4th and 7th century AD, both linked the eastern and western shores of the formerly inaccessible, swampy bog. A part of the older trackway No. II dating to the period of the Roman Empire is on display at the permanent exhibition of the Archäol ...
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Puncheon
Puncheon may refer to: * Puncheon (barrel), a container for wine and/or spirits * Puncheon or plank road, a road built with split logs or heavy slab timbers with one face smoothed, also used for flooring or other construction * Puncheon rum, a type of Caribbean rum * Puncheon (unit), a unit of volume People with the surname * Jason Puncheon (born 1986), English footballer See also * Puncheon Island, Tasmania, Australia * Puncheon Islets, Tasmania, Australia * Puncheon Run Connector The Puncheon Run Connector is an unnumbered four-lane freeway in the city of Dover, Delaware, Dover in Kent County, Delaware, Kent County, Delaware. It is named after Puncheon Run, a stream it follows. It provides a connection from U.S. Route 13 ...