Is a type of road or timber trackway made by placing logs, perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area. The result is an improvement over impassable mud or dirt roads, yet rough in the best of conditions
Think it's named that because of a cord of wood?
From 1910 to 1913, there was a 3 mile long piece of corduroy log road to get into Glacier Natl Park from the rail road depot.
While digging up a street in Michigan’s Grand Haven Township, a team of construction workers recently unearthed 100 feet of a corduroy road that dates to the Civil War era under 168th Ave. The road was built in approximately 1855, when the area was a logging town.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/corduroy-road-civil-war-era-found-michigan-180964229/
https://www.facebook.com/GHTownship/posts/1464847620220106
Another was found (Halfway between Buffalo NY and Detroit) in Waterloo, Ontario, under King St, in about 1800
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-corduroy-road-site-attracts-tourists-1.3545442
think the road was named after the clothing,
ReplyDeleteor the clothing named after the road,
youre old enough to remember corduroy pants right?
I certainly am old enough, I had a pair, they were brown, I was in 3rd grade. I liked them a lot.
DeletePLease clarify the first 60% of your note... Are you asking me if I think it? Or that you think it, and what's your conclusion?
The name corduroy when applied to these kind of road comes from the fact that the surface looks like corduroy fabric that has a ribbed appearance not because it was made from cord wood.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy_roadhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy_road
so it was the fabric, not the cord wood, that gave the road the name? Huh!
DeleteWhen I was preparing to teach a segment on the Civil War I learned that Sherman's Army often tore down houses, barns and fences rather than cutting down trees to build corduroy roads. In these days we rather automatically assume that if a structure was miss after Sherman's march it was because it was burned down,but now we know they were used to keep the army moving.
ReplyDeletewhoa... that's some historical news! Thanks! Cool info!
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