The
Jersey City and Bergen Point Plank Road was a road in the 19th century in
Hudson County, New Jersey,
United States which ran between
Paulus Hook and
Bergen Point. The company which built the road received its charter on March 6, 1850. to improve one that had been built in the 18th century. It has subsequently become Grand Street and Garfield Avenue in
Jersey City and Broadway in
Bayonne. It was during the 19th century that
plank roads were built, often by private companies as
turnpike roads, in this case with a tollgate at
Communipaw Junction. As the name suggests, wooden boards were laid on a roadbed in order to prevent horse-drawn carriages and wagons from sinking into softer ground on the portions of the road.