As the POB archives are now user unfriendly -
A few years back, there was a post about the term 'dim road'. After many posters put forth the idea of dim = barely visible, it seems that I recall someone having a definition which was something about stone used for the road.
Does any one recall that discussion or know what specifically a 'dim road' would be aside from an unintelligent road.
Do You Mean "Drift" Road
A "drift" road is specifically an easement to access a "wood" lot for removal of wood.
In the Colonial states many tracts were sold in threes, an "in town" lot of residence and possibly a barn or carriage house, an "out of town" pasture for summer grazing and hay for winter and finally a "wood lot" sufficently large to provide the annual firewood for home heating and cooking. Sometimes they were miles apart.
The "drift road" would provide access to an actuall road. Also attached to the pasture may have been a "cow path" allowing access to water.
I have seen some "wood lots", because they have not been used for that purpose for 100 years, impossible to place. Some may have long gone for taxes and only the words remain.
"Dim" might refer to dimensional stone, we know it as cobblestone.
Paul in PA
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=24919
Not sure that's much help, but it's what I found when Googling for "dim road".
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A dim road is just a road that is difficult to discern. Not obvious to the casual observer.
not unlike "dim evidence!"
It may have been 'dimensional stone' that I was remembering from the prior discussion.
Fortunately, the calls and still visible evidence of the old roadway made it easily retraced. I just could not remember the details of that prior post.
Thanks for the replies.