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They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand.

From History of the United States, Volume 6 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

Funds were set aside by the State Highway Commission in 1917 to macadamize the 40 mile section of Old Oregon Trail from Pendleton west to the Morrow County line.

From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson

The continent was crossed, the Gulf reached, and the road indicated by the hardy pioneers, which their successors will find it comparatively easy to level and macadamize.

From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by William John Wills

Unless changes are made in the location of the roads in many parts of this country it would be worse than folly to macadamize them.

From The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Bulter Hulbert

In the dense forest, where sunshine never comes, rocks, mud, and fallen trees in rapid alternation macadamize the path, save where it turns up the bed of a babbling brook.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

The 71st joined the retreat, still encumbered with its guns, and headed along the macadamized Warrenton turnpike – now Route 29 – toward Centreville, Burgess said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2021

The 71st joined the retreat, still encumbered with its guns, and headed along the macadamized Warrenton turnpike — now Route 29 — toward Centreville, Burgess said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021

Princeton University historian James M. McPherson writes that before all-weather macadamized roads, it cost the same to move a ton of goods 30 miles inland as it cost to bring a ton across the Atlantic.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2018

It is expected that this entire section will be macadamized during the 1919 season.

From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson

In the mean time Columbia Street had been graded and macadamized.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Orange Jacobs

This work, both grading and macadamizing is of excellent character and will soon be opened to traffic.

From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson

Her equestrian experience previously had been limited to steady macadamizing on the roads.

From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

The road to the Church is sadly in need of macadamizing, Mr. Holland—or, better still, asphalting.

From Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore

The steamer gives you an hour in which to drift about in the sunshine and meditate upon the inferiority of any material other than water for the macadamizing of roads.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley

In macadamizing a stray stone in one of his periodical puddings, I once lost a tooth, and with it an heiress of some reputation.

From A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others by Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer