township road

noun, a road maintained by the township 

“They sprayed it on the township roads. Keep the dust down.”

“Was there a south shore road too, or no?”
“No, not a township road.”

“The snowiest winter that I can remember — I think it was 1947 — they had to give up on the township roads completely.”

“My husband worked on the Island. He worked on the township roads, and he also guided a lot of the time. Fishing and hunting.”

“There’s only a quarter or a third of an acre around the lighthouse. Plus a fifteen or 20-foot strip of land to the end of the township road.”
“But that strip does connect right to the township road.”

“There was an issue, I think, in the early sixties, late sixties, about whether the road which gives access to that property was a township road, and whether in fact the township road went right down to the water. And there was a push by some to have it classified that way. The result would be that the public would have full access over this road to the water. And they felt that it was a township road because, number one there’d been a mill down there that people had accessed, and number two, some said that the township had expended funds on the road. So it became a legal issue and was finally … found not to be a township road.”