P3s called "turnpike charters" back then (HISTORY)

Warner Lord, is called the Archivist of Madison Town in Connecticut, a distance east from New Haven along Long Island Sound.

He writes:

"In 1811 the Durham-Madison turnpike (Route 79) was chartered, followed by the Essex-Guilford turnpike (Green Hill Road) in 1818 and the Fair Haven turnpike (Route 80) in 1825.  Commercial traffic over these roads could afford to pay the fees charged by the charter companies.

 "In 1832 there were 229 houses in south Madison and 86 in the north.  There were  mills in each, and seven stores in south Madison.  Although there were significantly more horses and cattle in the south, sheep obviously did well on Rockland’s scrubby hillsides, and they out-numbered sheep in south Madison.  

"In 1848, the railroad began building a line through town.  Madison was now connected to a larger world. Various enterprises joined farming and fishing as Madison occupations – a stone quarry shipping curbstones to Boston and New York, shoe manufacturing, shipbuilding, a sash and blind factory.  A company attempted to grow oysters in a hand-dug canal linking the Neck River with the Sound...

TOLLROADSnews 2009-06-04