First Macadam Roads West of the Mississippi -Clarksville MO
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kJfishman
N 39° 22.339 W 090° 54.384
15S E 680342 N 4360184
First Macadam Roads West of the Mississippi
Waymark Code: WMKDA5
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 03/24/2014
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A historical marker placed near the Clarksville MO Tourist information Center proclaims Clarksville had the "First Macadam Roads West of the Mississippi".
"Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820. The method simplified what had been considered state of the art at that point. Single-sized aggregate layers of small stones, with a coating of binder as a cementing agent, are mixed in an open-structured roadway." wikipedia
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