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Key People:: Cyrus Stevens Avery; Robert Moses

Related Topics:: road

highway, major road, usually in rural areas, but more recently a rural or urban road where points of entrance and exit for traffic are limited and controlled.See road.

This article was most recently revised and updated byAmy Tikkanen.

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