A New Roadway

DOYLE, PETERSEN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 6/6/2009 at 01:04:07

Sabula Gazette, November 1, 1899.

A New Roadway

The township trustees completed a deal Monday whereby the much dreaded mud hole in front of the Doyle farm on the Hauntown road will be a bugbear to travelers no longer. A new roadway was bought on top of the small hill directly north of Jerry Petersen’s farm. This is an excellent move on the part of the trustees as the small stretch of the road now to be abandoned has caused the expenditure of much money. It could be put in first class condition and the first rainy spell would cause it to be almost impassable. A good sized spring crosses the road at this point and this together with the surface water from the rains, and the soil being of the nature of quicksand kept it almost a constant mudhole. The new road is about 100 yards to the north and it will be open for travel in the course of a few days.