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Morey Hill Cut-Off, Jacob's Ladder Roadway

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $7.95
Original Price: $11.95

Stock #:301994
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: Becket
State: Massachusetts (MA)
County: Berkshire
Postmark: 1918 Aug-27
Postmark City: Chicopee
Postmark State: MA
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
Over the backbone of the Hoosac Range. A superb motorway of scenic splendor, connecting Housatonic River and Westfield River Valleys. On direct highway east an west across Massachusetts. It rises at gradient of six percent, by graceful curves, to summit 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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