Centre Turnpike

Centre Turnpike
Centre Turnpike
Reading–Sunbury Road
Route information
	Maintained by Centre Turnpike Road Authority
Length	75 mi (121 km)
Existed	1808–1885
Major junctions
South end	Penn Street in Reading
	Danville Turnpike
North end	Market Street in Sunbury
Location
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Counties	Berks, Schuylkill, Columbia, Northumberland
Highway system
	Pennsylvania State Route System; Interstate; US; State; Scenic; Legislative;

Centre Turnpike, also known as the Reading-Sunbury Road, was an early United States turnpike located in Pennsylvania. It followed the path of the King's Highway, which had been surveyed in 1770 by Francis Yarnall. Running from Reading to Sunbury, it was 75 miles (121 km) long, was started in 1808, and was completed around 1814 at a cost of US$208,000. The final toll was collected near Bear Gap in Ralpho Township in 1885. The general path of the original turnpike is now covered partly by Pennsylvania Route 61 and Pennsylvania Route 54. It was maintained and controlled by the Centre Turnpike Road Company, which was formed on March 25, 1805.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Mowry, C. (1822). Documents, Accompanying the Report of the Committee, on Roads, Bridges and Inland Navigation Read in the Senate of Pennsylvania on the 23d March 1822 (PDF). Pennsylvania Senate. Retrieved 2007-12-23.

[Senate-1] Mowry, C. (1822). Documents, Accompanying the Report of the Committee, on Roads, Bridges and Inland Navigation Read in the Senate of Pennsylvania on the 23d March 1822 (PDF). Pennsylvania Senate. Retrieved 2007-12-23.

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