Post road
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A post road is a road designated for the transportation of
Asia
Great Post Road (Dutch: De Grote Postweg), from Anyer to Panarukan, Indonesia, was a notable post road in Asia, built during the governancy of Herman Willem Daendels of Dutch East Indies from 1808 to 1811.
Europe
Notable post roads in Europe include:
- Antwerp-Venice Post Road, similar to the Dutch Post Road.
- Bremen-Hamburg Post Road, approved by the king of Sweden on July 5, 1665 to establish regular mail service. A second route was routed from Cuxhaven through the Land of Wursten to Lehe.
- Dutch Post Road, (German: Niederländischer Postkurs) established in 1490, connected the Netherlands with coaching inns in Germany and Italy.
North America
The following are notable post roads in Canada and the U.S.
Canada
Chemin du Roy was built between Montreal (Repentigny) and Quebec City from 1731 to 1737, for mail and as a means of travel for the key settlements in New France[1]/Lower Canada. It was later incorporated as Quebec Route 2 and is now part of Quebec Route 138.
Two notable post roads built in the late 1700s and early 1800s were
The latter route, which became The Provincial Highway in 1917 (Ontario Highway 2 c. 1923), and the former which became a Dundas Highway in 1920 (Ontario Highway 5 in 1925), were the beginning of the provincial highway system in Ontario.[citation needed]
United States
In what was to later become the United States, post roads developed as the primary method of communicating information across and between the colonies.[citation needed]
The
Notable American post roads built for the purpose include:
- Albany Post Road, which connects New York City to Albany, the capital of New York State
- Boston Post Road, which traverses New England from New York City to Boston, Massachusetts
- Westchester's county seat.[citation needed]
References
- ^ de Boisclerc, Lanouiller (September 16, 2013). "History: Last August I travelled by carriage from Montreal to Québec in four and a half days". Le Chemin du Roy. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
- Montreal Gazette. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
- ^ a b Story, Justice Joseph (1833). "Article 1, Section 8, Clause 7". Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. Vol. 3:§§ 1119–42, 1144–45. Boston: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved October 28, 2008.