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[Chas]

I'd like to add my thanks to everyone who posted links and other very interesting information about the saddle road.

I have a question I have been wondering about for some time now.

I notice that there are what appear to be "driveways", if you will, all along the road. Some of these have pretty elaborate stone culverts/bridges. Most go nowhere. I guess these are probably to privately owned land. My question is, were these just "included" as cost of the construction or did the owners have to pay (via an assessment), or pay extra for the fancy stone ones? I am also assuming that some land was "taken" from private owners for the construction so maybe that was part of the deal(?)

I am just curious about it. The answer is probably somewhere in the voluminous information already provided here, but I must confess, I'm not going to spend the time looking for it. I promise I won't complain if I don't get an answer or that someone else didn't look it up for me!