McAdamization

Ours is a matter-of-fact age—an age of steam and railway and McAdamization and labor-saving machinery—the poetry of Time has gone by forever, and we have only the sober prose left us.

1831, John Greenleaf Whittier, Legends of New England […], Gainesville, Fla.: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, published 1965, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64

Imagine a street much wider than Pennsylvania Avenue, smooth as McAdamization can render it, down whose length at regular intervals rise spreading trees — divide it into four avenues, each rejoicing in its Arch of leaves — if not as grand, at least as complete as that of Temple Street New Haven that used to excite my special wonder & enthusiasm.

1863 June 27, Douglas French Forrest, “Running blockade at Charleston: May 27 – July 29, 1863”, in William N[orwood] Still, Jr., editor, Odyssey in Gray: A Diary of Confederate Service, 1863–1865, Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, published 1979, →ISBN, page 24

Ultimately, Whigs regarded the outcome with mixed emotions. As champions of state-funded internal improvements, they favored recommendations like railroad construction, turnpike McAdamization, and the dredging of rivers and harbors.

1995, Joseph Conan Thompson, “Vindication”, in Willie Person Mangum: Politics and Pragmatism in the Age of Jackson, Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida, →OCLC, page 288