Financing roads has always been a challenge for communities & governments. In the 1600s the English started putting up barriers -- turnpikes -- and charging fees. @genejean.bsky.social and @howtoreadthisch.art tell all. N.E. USA still calls toll roads turnpikes. how-to-history.com/2026/05/27/t...
Pam Smith Turnpike roads were a system of road management used in England. They were first established in the seventeenth century but not used extensively until the eighteenth. The first turnpike w…
