{
 "id": "phraya-surasi",
 "type": "person",
 "names": {
  "name": "Chao Phraya Surasi Wisitsak",
  "th": "เจ้าพระยาสุรสีห์วิสิษฐศักดิ์",
  "rtgs": "Chao Phraya Surasi Wisitsak",
  "aliases": [
   "Choei Kalyanamit",
   "เชย กัลยาณมิตร"
  ],
  "said": "Planted a thousand trees along a road, and the trees outlived the empire that sent him.",
  "said_th": "ปลูกต้นยางพันต้นเลียบถนน แล้วต้นยางอยู่ยืนกว่าจักรวรรดิที่ส่งท่านมา"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "text": {
  "what": "Siam's high commissioner for the northern circle, Monthon Phayap, in the reign of Inthawichayanon. Under his commission about a thousand yang-na trees were planted along the Chiang Mai–Lamphun road from the Nawarat Bridge to the provincial line, dated 20 October 1882 by one account; a telegram of 1900 in another. He is also credited with the Hang Dong road of 1899, lined with khi-lek trees for the trade to Burma."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ข้าหลวงใหญ่มณฑลพายัพของสยามในรัชสมัยพระเจ้าอินทวิชยานนท์ ภายใต้ท่านมีการปลูกต้นยางนาราวพันต้นเลียบถนนเชียงใหม่–ลำพูน จากสะพานนวรัฐถึงเขตจังหวัด บันทึกหนึ่งให้วันที่ 20 ตุลาคม 2425 อีกบันทึกเป็นโทรเลขปี 2443 ท่านยังได้ชื่อว่าสร้างถนนหางดงปี 2442 ปลูกต้นขี้เหล็กสองข้างเพื่อการค้ากับพม่า"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "ton-yang-road",
   "as": "The trees.",
   "rel": "road"
  },
  {
   "to": "route-108",
   "as": "The other road.",
   "rel": "highway"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "trees"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:thaipbs-308334",
  "s:thwp-106",
  "s:cmu-thesis-2548"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:thaipbs-308334"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "ton-yang-road",
   "type": "road",
   "name": "The Yang Tree Road, Chiang Mai to Lamphun",
   "as": "Who had them planted."
  },
  {
   "from": "route-108",
   "type": "highway",
   "name": "Route 108, southwest to Mae Hong Son",
   "as": "Built the Hang Dong road."
  },
  {
   "from": "map-1893",
   "type": "map",
   "name": "The 1893 map for Inthawichayanon",
   "as": "The commissioner who followed."
  },
  {
   "from": "map-mccarthy-1888",
   "type": "map",
   "name": "McCarthy's Siam, 1888",
   "as": "The commissioner of the same decade."
  },
  {
   "from": "map-mccarthy-1900",
   "type": "map",
   "name": "McCarthy's Siam, 1900",
   "as": "The commissioner."
  },
  {
   "from": "the-trees-on-the-lamphun-road",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The trees on the Lamphun road",
   "as": "The commissioner."
  }
 ]
}