Keywords: Toll Highway
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Site Pages
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… Authority, for the purpose of building a super highway.(8) The first section of highway opened in 1947 between Kittery and Portland."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4
"A toll road across the marsh between Dunstan and Oak Hill, the Cumberland Turnpike was the first turnpike in New England. Dr."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"… the current path of Route 1, and was funded by toll rates, eight cents for a horse and twenty-five cents for a stagecoach."
