1794 - Transportation
Transportation
Bridge engineer Jean (-Rodolphe) Perronet dies at Paris February 27 at age 85.
The Lancaster Road opens to link the Pennsylvania Dutch country and Lancaster with Philadelphia and the Delaware River (see 1792). Stockholders have subscribed $465,000 to finance it and will receive such handsome dividends—15 percent in some years—that their success will inspire similar toll-road projects (see Cumberland Road, 1811).
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