DCHP-1 Online
settlement road Hist. 
a road built into an unsettled area to make it accessible for settlement.
See also: colonization road
- 1961 The following data . . . contains some interesting sidelights on . . . the building of the "settlement roads."
- 1961 The following data . . . contains some interesting sidelights on . . . the building of the "settlement roads."