Protocol of the College of Overseers - 1796
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March 9, 1796
4) The Court has approved the new Road over the Lehigh Mountain, and it must now be completed by the Roadmaster in Saucona, which, however, can only happen after the harvest, because the road was laid out through a sewn field.
The Court has also ordered a jury to inspect the proposed new road to Emaus, and it is hopeful that this proposal will come to be.
June 29, 1796
4) The Bridge in the Gemein Garden, like everything that the last great flood caused to be damaged, will be rebuilt as soon as possible.
In addition, it was remarked that it would be beneficial if the new bridge over the Monocacy, which is to be erect by Br. Knaus’s, received another and wider position, because one can then more easily and better bring the good wall stones that are on the mountain by the mill dam into the town.
September 14, 1796
A carriage road must be laid out from the Monocacy Bridge by Knaus’s, [it] must be one rod wide through the whole meadow, a footpath close to the creek is to be left free.
Transcriptions and translations by Katherine Carté Engel
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