The Merritt Parkway

By Bruce Radde

Book Overview

The Merritt Parkway, on the National Register of Historic Places, connects Connecticut's Fairfield County with New York State. This work traces its history from proposals and design to completion in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300053797
• ISBN13: 9780300053791
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Super history of the nation's most beautiful highway!

If you were ever interested in finding out more about how highways were built before the Interstate system, this is the book for you! The Merritt Parkway and its extension the Wilber Cross Parkway remain marvelous designs to this day and are still enjoyable to travel on during every season. If you are from Connecticut or nearby New York, this book offers a wonderful historically perspective. The photographs are large and clear and the pages of the book are a good weight. In addition to being a good read, this book promoted a lot of family converstion about the history of the road. My great-Grandfather, for example, was the first person to ever drive over the Sikorsky Bridge built to connect the Merritt Parkway to the Boston Post Road in Milford, CT. This made the book seem all the more personal to me knowing that my family had played a part in Connecticut's history. Super, super book! Highly recommended to those that love highways and the history of the American road!