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Bishop's Bend

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $3.95

Stock #:25618
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: Becket
State: Massachusetts (MA)
County: Berkshire
Postmark: 1916
Postmark City: Pittsfield
Postmark State: MA
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Jacob's Ladder Roadway. Over the Backbone of the Hoosac Range. A superb motorway of scenic splendor, connecting Housatonic River and Westfield River Valleys. On direct highway East and West across Massachusetts. It rises at gradient of six percent, by graceful curves, to summit 2300 ft. above tiewater. First of great state road mountain cross-overs. Opened Sept. 10, 1910 with a picnic on the sky-line. Here Mrs. George Westinghouse raised the American flag. The Ladder cost $240,000 and is the most traveled mountain road in America.

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