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John Loudon McAdam, James McGeorge, and John Goodfellow white plaque

Commemorative plaque
John Loudon McAdam, James McGeorge, and John Goodfellow white plaque
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This white commemorative plaque records: In this old churchyard is the ruin of a pre-reformation church bearing coats of arms of the Johnstone and Maxwell families. Among gravestones of interest is that to the memory of John Loudon McAdam, of roadmaking fame and those to the memories of James McGeorge and John Goodfellow Guard and Driver respectively, of a Royal Mail coach who lost their lives in a snowstorm north of Devil's Beef Tub in 1831
John Loudon McAdam was a pioneering road engineer whose innovative construction techniques revolutionized road building; James McGeorge and John Goodfellow were respectively a guard and driver of a Royal Mail coach who tragically lost their lives in a snowstorm in 1831.

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