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The Canalside Rail Trail is a 3.8-mile (6.1 km) trail, partially on old railroad beds, from East Deerfield to Turners Falls in Montague, Massachusetts, US.A short portion of the trail runs along town streets, but the majority is on a paved trail from which motor vehicles are prohibited.
Turner's Gap is a wind gap in the South Mountain Range of the Blue Ridge Mountains, located in Frederick County and Washington County, Maryland. The gap is traversed by U.S. Route 40 Alternate , the old National Pike .
It ran 3 miles (4.8 km) from a junction with the Fitchburg route east of Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Turners Falls, Massachusetts. It was originally built in 1868 by the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, later part of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The B&M acquired the New Haven's Turners Falls branch in 1947 and
The B&M bought the remainder of the branch in 1947 and abandoned its own branch, except for some industrial trackage in Turners Falls. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Although the B&M received some state money in the late 1970s for rehabilitating the branch, [ 4 ] service ceased in October 1981, and the B&M filed for abandonment in 1985.
One of the Cimarron Mountain Routes paralleled the present U.S. Route 64 from I-25 to Cimarron. Trails branched off of the Cimarron Route into several communities. [10] [11] A branch of the route from Bent's Fort went into Taos in or after the founding of the Santa Fe Trail in 1821. [12] The first wagon train was led by Charles Bent in 1831.
The Turner's and Fox's Gaps Historic District comprises the Civil War-era battlefield involved in the Battle of South Mountain, which took place on September 14, 1862. The district extends on the west to the slopes of South Mountain in the area of Zittlestown , and to the east beyond the foot of the mountain to the small community of Bolivar.
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Auxiliary Interstate Highways (also called three-digit Interstate Highways) are a subset of highways within the United States' Interstate Highway System.The 323 auxiliary routes generally fall into three types: spur routes, which connect to or intersect the parent route at one end; bypasses, which connect to the parent route at both ends; and beltways, which form a circle that intersects the ...