TURNING STONE WALLS INTO ROADS 



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The Oaklawn Road, the cross road 

 not long since completed near the city 

 limits, connects Newtielcl Avenue with 

 North Stamford state road and is 

 about one mile long. It is built with a 

 traveled path sixteen feet in width and 

 the ground stone was spread from 

 twelve to eighteen inches in depth. 

 All the stone from the Dr. Barnes 

 property, together with tons blasted 

 in the fields near the stone crusher, 

 has been utilized in making this one 

 i'\ the most durable stone roads in the 

 town of Stamford, so good a one in 

 fact that the present Board of Select- 

 men are much pleased with the success 

 in making Oaklawn a permanent road. 

 With the completion of this and Bell- 

 town Road, Dope Street, Glenbrook, is 

 now connected with practically a con- 

 tinuous crossroad near the city line 

 that can be used with safety the year 

 around whereas during the winter and 

 spring before any work was done on 

 this road as many as seventeen auto 

 trucks were mired. 



The Belltown Road has a traveled 

 path twenty feet in -width, with an 



average depth of ground stone of six- 

 teen inches, and it is safe to say that 

 for durability it will favorably com- 

 pare with any macadam road in the 

 town of Stamford. The length of this 

 road is about two-thirds of a mile, and 

 to put it in its present good condition 

 required nearly three thousand tons 

 of stone all of which was taken from 

 the Barnes tract. So appreciative of 

 this road are the residents of Belltown 

 that after its completion they built at 

 their own expense a waiting station* 

 near the trolley track. 



The Newfield Road, mucn used by 

 automobiles, was a problem on ac- 

 count of its wet condition. More than 

 one mile was dug up in orcier to pro- 

 vide sufficient depth for an undcr- 

 drainage of stone on which ground 

 stone more than one foot in depth was 

 spread in order to prevent heaving or 

 buckling. Good drainage is an im- 

 portant factor in the construction of a^ 

 road and if in the rebuilding of the 

 Newfield Road such provision had not 

 been made it would have heaved and 

 rutted badly. Newfield Avenue is noted 



AN ATTRACTIVE WAITING ROOM AT THE JUNCTION OF THE STONE WALL ROAD AND 



THE TROLLEY LINE. 



