Post by UKarchaeology on Apr 3, 2016 19:14:17 GMT
Archaeologist says discovery shows "King Street has been an economic thoroughfare for 200 years"
A corduroy road unearthed by construction crews on King Street in Uptown Waterloo dates back two centuries and is likely one of the first ever roads built by Euro-Canadian settlers in the region, according to a senior archaeologist.
Charlton Carscallen said over the last two weeks, his team of scientists has been able to plot the route of the corduroy road, which he says runs north along King from William Street to the railroad tracks near Waterloo Town Square.
"We suspect it was the Mennonites who built the road," Carscallen said, noting the white settlers who built it likely learned adopted the technology from their former home in Lancaster County Pennsylvania and brought it to Waterloo after the American Revolution.
"This particular cordoroy road we believe was built somewhere between the late 1790s and 1816," Carscallen said.
Mud route
Full story: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/corduroy-road-represents-waterloos-early-beginings-1.3516984