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Image of farmers improving a local dirt road, from an S. Pennock and Sons road machinery catalogue, circa 1885.
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Etching of "The Good Old Way, Working Out the Road Tax," in the Improved Road Machinery Manufactured by S. Pennock and Sons" catalogue., circa 1885.

Credit: Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pa.

From colonial times onwards the maintenance of rural roads in Pennsylvania was a legal responsibility of local residents. This image appeared a catalogue for "Improved Road Machinery Manufactured by S. Pennock and Sons," of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

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