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قراءة كتاب The Cumberland Road
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HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME 10
Bridge at “Big Crossings”HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME 10
The Cumberland Road
by
Archer Butler Hulbert
With Maps and Illustrations
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
CLEVELAND, OHIO
1904
COPYRIGHT, 1904
BY
The Arthur H. Clark Company
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Preface | 11 | |
| I. | Our First National Road | 15 |
| II. | Building the Road in the West | 71 |
| III. | Operation and Control | 91 |
| IV. | Stagecoaches and Freighters | 119 |
| V. | Mails and Mail Lines | 142 |
| VI. | Taverns and Tavern Life | 152 |
| VII. | Conclusion | 174 |
| Appendixes | 189 | |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| I. | Bridge at “Big Crossings” | Frontispiece |
| II. | Map of Cumberland Road in Pennsylvania and Maryland | 55 |
| III. | Chestnut Ridge, Pennsylvania | 65 |
| IV. | Map of Cumberland Road in the West | 79 |
| V. | A Culvert on the Cumberland Road in Ohio | 177 |
PREFACE
For material used in this volume the author is largely in the debt of the librarians of the State Libraries of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. From the Honorable C. B. Galbreath, of the Ohio State Library, he has received much assistance covering an extended period. To the late Thomas B. Searight’s valuable collection of biographical and colloquial sketches, The Old Pike, the author wishes to express his great indebtedness. As Mr. Searight gave special attention to the road in Pennsylvania, the present monograph deals at large with the story of the road west of the Ohio River, especially in the state of Ohio.
The Cumberland Road was best known in some parts as the “United States” or “National” Road. Its legal name has been selected as the most appropriate for the present monograph which is revised from a study of the subject The Old National Road formerly published by the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society.
A. B. H.
Marietta, Ohio, May 15, 1903.
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