Gifford Pinchot [Plaque] - York County, PA
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Plaque located about 100' E of a PA Historical Marker which is not in the PHMC database.
Waymark Code: WM3NMV
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 04/25/2008
Views: 14
Interestingly (or ironically), this plaque stands along a section of Old Rossville RD which has been retired as progress has replaced it with a newer wider road about 150 feet to the west - which now sports a newer PA historical Marker.
Plaque text is as follows:
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania on this spot in the presence of Samuel S. Lewis Secretary of Penna. Dept. of Highways, Thomas H. Mac Donald Chief of U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, and a large public gathering, on July 23, 1931 drove the pick beginning construction of 20,000 miles of rural roads transferred to the Pennsylvania Department of Highways by act of assembly dated June 22, 1931.
Engineers in charge
Samuel Eckels, Chief Engineer
J.C. McCarrell, Division Engineer
F.R.Wertz, District Engineer
R.E. Cunningham, Maintenance Engineer
R.E. Eisminger, Maintenance Superintendent
Committee of Arraingements
Luther Smith - W.D. Brougher - Elmer Wise
Marker Name: - not listed -
County: York
Date Dedicated: 01/01/1932
Marker Type: Plaque
Location: Old Rossville Rd & Bull Rd., 1.5 miles S of Lewisberry (E of PA 177)
Category: - not listed -
Website: [Web Link]
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