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The post roads and sea lanes, typical avenues of communication in peacetime, were under constant threat during the war.
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Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
The stone house off an old wooded post road in Garrison, New York, had been long rented to a group of hippies who had been burning furniture for heat.
—Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023
Sometimes the county will post road-closure signs at Henness Pass.
—San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2021
The constitutional authority that created the Postal Service allowed for the construction of post roads to link faraway cities; eventually, these ran all the way from Florida to Maine.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 2 May 2020
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Sarah Botstein, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
The stone house off an old wooded post road in Garrison, New York, had been long rented to a group of hippies who had been burning furniture for heat.
—Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023
Sometimes the county will post road-closure signs at Henness Pass.
—San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2021
The constitutional authority that created the Postal Service allowed for the construction of post roads to link faraway cities; eventually, these ran all the way from Florida to Maine.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 2 May 2020
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“Post road.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/post%20road. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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