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Funds were set aside by the State Highway Commission in 1917 to macadamize the 40 mile section of Old Oregon Trail from Pendleton west to the Morrow County line.

From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson

Unless changes are made in the location of the roads in many parts of this country it would be worse than folly to macadamize them.

From The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Bulter Hulbert

They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand.

From History of the United States, Volume 6 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

The continent was crossed, the Gulf reached, and the road indicated by the hardy pioneers, which their successors will find it comparatively easy to level and macadamize.

From Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia by William John Wills

In the dense forest, where sunshine never comes, rocks, mud, and fallen trees in rapid alternation macadamize the path, save where it turns up the bed of a babbling brook.

From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton

The 71st joined the retreat, still encumbered with its guns, and headed along the macadamized Warrenton turnpike – now Route 29 – toward Centreville, Burgess said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2021

The 71st joined the retreat, still encumbered with its guns, and headed along the macadamized Warrenton turnpike — now Route 29 — toward Centreville, Burgess said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021

Princeton University historian James M. McPherson writes that before all-weather macadamized roads, it cost the same to move a ton of goods 30 miles inland as it cost to bring a ton across the Atlantic.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2018

In the mean time Columbia Street had been graded and macadamized.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Orange Jacobs

This work was later macadamized by the State.

From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson

Very much more sumptuous than ours, their system of road-making consists in upholstering with silk instead of macadamizing.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

The steamer gives you an hour in which to drift about in the sunshine and meditate upon the inferiority of any material other than water for the macadamizing of roads.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley

This money was used in macadamizing the Pacific Highway between Latham and Divide.

From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson

The natives know all its virtues, and, while some ancient deposits of lava are used as a fertilizer for soils, other lava beds are blasted for building material and for macadamizing roads.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

In addition to the grading and macadamizing this work involves the construction of a 100-foot span bridge over the John Day River.

From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by S. Benson