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> First of all, please excuse duplications, as this message is being
> cross-posted to ARCHIVES-L, C18-L, EARAM-L, HERITAGE, MUSEUM-L
> PUBLHIST, HTECH-L, and TRANS-L.
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> At Mary Washington College undergraduate Angela Tweedy is pursuing an
> individual study of the development of the rules of the road on land in
> the American colonies and in the early Republic.
>
> I hope that there will be subscribers to the lists to which we are
> posting who will have references to suggest to Ms. Tweedy, in connection
> with her message below.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> John
>
> John N. Pearce
> Director, Center for Historic Preservation
> Mary Washington College
> 1301 College Avenue
> Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5358
> voice/voicemail 703 899-4334
> fax 703 899-4123
> e-mail jpearce@s850.mwc.edu
>
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> MESSAGE FROM ANGELA TWEEDY:
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> I am interested in any help that you could give me regarding the "rules
> of the road (on land)" in colonial and 19th-century America.  Subjects
> which may illuminate the rules of the road include development of
> vehicles and of methods of loading, driving and unloading them; road
> materials, conditions, and repairs, and their possible effects on rules
> of the road; rules regarding passing, on one-lane as well as two-lane
> rights of way; influence of such varied matters as rules for pack
> trains, railroad and canal building and use, rules of racing for horses
> or other animals, use of walking sticks, and development of bicycling.
>
> I am interested in quantifying--if possible!--numbers and ratios of
> oxcarts, Conestoga wagons and carriages in 18th-century America.
>
> I am also very interested in anecdotal illustrations of "driving right"
> and other rules of the road--and will be very happy to receive any
> quotations you might have at hand from travelers' accounts, court order
> books, court cases, how-to manuals or other such sources.
>
> In my completed paper I will, of course, give complete citation of the
> source for each item of information or for your other suggestions, and
> Mr. Pearce tells me that the Center for Historic Preservation would send
> a copy of the paper to you in you would like to have one.  For those who
> may have specific bibliographical suggestions, Mr. Pearce and I would be
> happy to send a copy of my bibliography of works consulted to date, if
> requested.
>
> Thank you so much for any help you can provide.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Angela Tweedy, undergraduate majoring in historic preservation
> Box MWC-1200
> 1701 College Avenue
> Fredericksburg, VA 22401-4666
> fax (c/o Pearce) 703 899-4123
> e-mail atweedy@s850.mwc.edu
>
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