Sentence:  Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County , past the white church at Fishkill , past Verplanck 's Point on the east bank of the Hudson , to the white salt crusted <WSD>roads</WSD> of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation