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Chestnut Hill, Jacob's Ladder Roadway

Chestnut Hill, Jacob's Ladder Roadway Becket Massachusetts
Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $4.95
Original Price: $9.95
Stock #:1119920
Type: Postcard
City: Becket
State: Massachusetts (MA)
County: Berkshire
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Additional Details:
A superb motorway of scenic splendor, connecting Housatonic River and Westfield River Valleys. On direct highway East and West across Massachusetts. It rises at a gradient of six percent, to a summit of 2300 ft. above tidewater. Opened Sept. 10, 1910. Here Mrs. George Westinghouse raised the American flag. The Ladder cost $240,000 and is the most traveled mountain road in America.
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