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TURNPIKE. A public road paved with stones or other hard substance.
2. Turnpike roads are usually made by corporations to which a power to make them has been granted. The grant of such power passes not only an easement for the road itself, but also so much land as is connected with it; as, for instance, for a toll house and a cellar under it, and a well for the use of the family. 9 Pick. R. 109. A turnpike is a public highway, and a building erected before the turnpike was made, though upon a part out of the travelled path, if continued there is a nuisance. 16 Pick. R. 175. Vide Road; Street; Way.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Information: IBC USA Conferences, Inc., 225 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 017721749; phone 508-481-6400; fax 508-481-7911; e-mail reg@ibcusa.com.

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Ali's great-grandfather Abe Grady emigrated from his home on the Turnpike Road in Ennis to the United States in the 1860s.

Muhammad Ali to visit ancestral home in Ireland

Local historian George Redmonds in his book Places of Kirkheaton and District informs us that the inn and bridge at Waterloo do indeed commemorate the Allies' victory over the French in 1815 and that the building of the bridge in 1819 was a major development in the history of the Wakefield to Austerlands turnpike road.

Waterloo's history; MAILBAG

DISCOVER more about some of the characters who lived on Dunston's Turnpike Road, with Francis Newman, Sunniside Local History Society, at Dunston Library, Thursday, May 11, 7.15pm.

Dunston / Whickham

They paid the one penny toll which was levied on users of the bridge when it was opened on July 7, 1831 to carry the Whorlton and Staindrop turnpike road.

Bridge link to the past

Notice is hereby given of the next meeting of the Trustees of the Turnpike Road at which the tolls arising from several gates erected upon the said Turnpike Road will be discussed.