Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Historic Highways of America ...: The Cumberland road. 1904
Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Historic Highways of America: The Cumberland Road
Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Historic Highways of America
Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849674932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War. Braddock's Road. The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road. Boone's Wilderness Road. Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin. Waterways of Westward Expansion. The Cumberland Road. Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes). The Great American Canals (two volumes). The Future of Road-Making in America. When this West was in its teens and began suddenly outstripping itself, to the marvel of the world, one of the momentous factors in its progress was the building of a great national road, from the Potomac River to the Mississippi River, by the United States Government—a highway seven hundred miles in length, at a cost of seven millions of treasure. This ribbon of road, winding its way through Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, toward the Mississippi, was one of the most important steps in that movement of national expansion which followed the conquest of the West.
The Cumberland Road
Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland Road
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: The National Road
Author: Karl B. RaitzPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851551
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for the most part, by U.S. 40 and I-70.).
The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine
Author: Breaking the Appalachian Barrier
Author: John HrastarPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476630399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier between the British colonies in the east and French territory in the west, passable only on foot or horseback. It took more than a century to break the mountain barrier and open the west to settlement. In 1751 a private Virginia company pioneered a road from Maryland to Ohio, challenging the French and Indians for the Ohio country. Several wars stalled the road, which did not start in earnest until after Ohio became a state in 1803. The stone-paved Cumberland Road--from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia--was complete by 1818 and over the next 30 years was traversed by Conestoga wagons and stagecoaches. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad--the first general purpose railroad in the world--started in Baltimore in the 1820s and reached Wheeling by 1852, uniting east and west.
The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment
Author: Theodore SkyPublisher: University of Delaware
ISBN: 1611490219
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road's contribution to the cultural, economic, and administrative history of the United States, its decline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and its revival in the twentieth century in the form of U.S. Route 40. The story of the National Road embraces an account of its building, its constitutional significance, the unique culture that it represented, the movements and trends that transpired across its route, and the symbolic value that it held, and continues to hold, for the American people. Beyond its status as an American heritage symbol, it serves as a forceful reminder that the United States must continue to pursue the goal of sustainable national investment that began with the National Road and comparable projects during the early republic.