Soap Creek Valley · Place

Plank Road

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about Plank Road: 7 transcript mentions across 3 records, grouped by who was speaking.

road No coordinate

Index references (printed indexes): 0
Transcript mentions: 7

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

This place has not been given a coordinate. It appears here because the narrators named it; where it stood is not established.

Provenance

Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

Charles Hindes and Norman Hindes in #14 Charles and Norman Hindes p. 36, p. 46
James Hanish in #6 James Hanish p. 14
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 64, p. 78, p. 79, p. 120

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

Or some of them they would what they called made a plank road up into the road and then the trucker would go up there and then they would have a loading platform.

James Hanish, #6 James Hanish , p. 13

Yeah, they had plank roads, in fact, I remember during the Depression, the men used to put in the plank road, they wanted to keep working because they had to reach more

James Hanish, #6 James Hanish , p. 13

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: Plank Road (place record).
This page: Soap Creek Valley: Plank Road. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/places/plank-road/
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