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Turnpikes

Scope note

Use for either high-speed multilane highways or 18th- and 19th-century thoroughfares along which tolls are collected from users; can be expressways or throughways.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

30008245

Equivalent Terms used

turnpike

Created

13yrs ago

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