The Historic National Road
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In 1816, with a strong interest in internal improvements, the legislatures of Virginia and Ohio authorized the formation of the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company (Belmont because the bridge company was to connect from Wheeling, Virginia to Belmont County …
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Maryland toll roads helped revolutionize American travel. The Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike began with a tollgate, placed near this corner in 1807. Fora few cents, you could head west on a "smooth" road that was the ancestor of today's turnpikes. Pr…
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". . . so many happy people, restless in the midst of abundance." —Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840.
Americans are an adventurous people. Frompast to present, they have used feet, horses,wagons, stagecoaches, canals, railroads,bicycles, automobiles, tru…
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For several decades in the early 1800s, thousands of Conestoga Wagons, "ships of inland commerce," ruled the National Road. With their sloping bodies, wheels taller than a man and six-horse teamsskillfully maneuvered with a single "jerk line," they could ca…
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The Ellicott brothers constructed what became the first leg of the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike to get their flour to market in Baltimore. By 1787, they cut a new road east through the forests to shorten the trip to the city. This route became part…
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"Open a wide door, and make a smooth way for the produce of that Country to pass to our Markets." George Washington, 1784
America's founders looked west for the future success of the new country. The United States needed good roads and canals to open up …
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"New Lisbon" was established by Quaker Caleb Pancoast in 1802, who saw both need and opportunity to service travelers along the length of the National Pike. He also welcomed all religious denominations into his home, and allowed it to be used as a meeting h…
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Methodist churches were a source and inspiration for the budding African-American community as people movedwestward along the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike, part of the National Road system. Both enslaved and free African-Americans worshipped, atfir…
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As Fredericktown was born in 1745, German farmers were already hauling their grain to the port of Baltimore. By the 1780s, new communities were springing up alongbusy wagon routes. Two speculators, Nicholas Hall and William Plummer, competed to sell lots al…
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The significance of this structure lies both in its history and architecture. It is one of the few remaining "toll houses" along the old National Road. The National Road was chartered between Hancock and Cumberland in 1819 and completed in 1822, following a…