The Historic National Road
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In the early 1800s, as settlers spread west from the Chesapeake Bay, the farming community of Poplar Springs grew up around the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike, part of the system of roads making up the National Road. An endless parade of drovers and …
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Milestone markswhere extension ofNational Roadwest of Ohio Riverwas started July 4, 1825.
Stone relocated 1964
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2UX_the-national-pike_Wheeling-WV.html
The National Pike, called the "Old Cumberland Road" , was started in 1811 and used to Wheeling in 1817 and by mail coaches from Washington by 1818. Most of it followed the Nemacolin Path and Braddock's Road from Cumberland, Md.
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"I saw the wind blow so hard on Keyser's Ridge, that it took six men to hold the hair on one man's head."
In the early days of the National Road, this stretch was often "snowed up" with drifts up to twenty feet deep. Stagecoaches and freight wagons were …
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Colonel Ebenezer Zane, one of the founders of Wheeling, laid out the village that became Bridgeport in 1806 on the site of Fort Kirkwood (1789). Originally named Canton, it acquired its present name after the bridge to Wheeling Island was built. The arrival…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM32K_mile-stones-of-the-old-national-pike_Mt-Airy-MD.html
Looking more like an ancient tombstone, the stone marker at the bottom of the hill before you, tucked inside the guardrail, was once used to denote mileage to Baltimore along the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike, also known as the old National Pike.
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You have reached the highest point on the National Road. Here, in the far western mountains of Maryland is the backbone of eastern America. In 1817, the National Road construction crew took on the challenge of crossing this tough terrain by laying a crushed…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM34Z_catonsville_Catonsville-MD.html
This 1877 "Plan of Catonsville" lays outs all the possibilities of an energetic and emerging suburb of Baltimore, only eight miles, or a one-day carriage ride, to the east. The centerpiece of the town is the Frederick Turnpike, part of the road system that …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM360_catonsville_Catonsville-MD.html
The reign of stagecoaches and Conestoga Wagons on the Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike only lasted seventy years. Omnibuses, attached to teams of four horses, began rolling out from Baltimore to Catonsville in 1862.
The Catonsville Short Line Railro…
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Rainwater enters the outcropping sandstones of Sideling Hill and collects in what is termed an aquifer. In this highway cut, the water runs out at the bottom of the fractured sandstone layers because it cannot go through the dense claystone below. There are…