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Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume I)
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HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME 11
HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME 11
Pioneer Roads and
Experiences of Travelers
(Volume I)
by
Archer Butler Hulbert
With 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. | The Evolution of Highways: from Indian Trail to Turnpike | 15 |
| II. | A Pilgrim on the Pennsylvania Road | 106 |
| III. | Zane’s Trace and the Maysville Pike | 151 |
| IV. | Pioneer Travel in Kentucky | 175 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| I. | A Milestone on Braddock’s Road | Frontispiece |
| II. | Indian Travail | 19 |
| III. | Old Conestoga Freighter | 50 |
| IV. | Earliest Style of Log Tavern | 87 |
| V. | Widow McMurran’s Tavern (Scrub Ridge, Pennsylvania Road) | 134 |
| VI. | Bridge on which Zane’s Trace Crossed the Muskingum River at Zanesville, Ohio | 162 |
| VII. | Pioneer View of Houses at Fort Cumberland, Maryland | 191 |
PREFACE
The first chapter of this volume presents an introduction to the two volumes of this series devoted to Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers. The evolution of American highways from Indian trail to macadamized road is described; the Lancaster Turnpike, the first macadamized road in the United States, being taken as typical of roads of the latter sort.
An experience of a noted traveler, Francis Baily, the eminent British astronomer, is presented in chapter two.
The third chapter is devoted to the story of Zane’s Trace from Virginia to Kentucky across Ohio, and its terminal, the famous Maysville Pike. It was this highway which precipitated President Jackson’s veto of the Internal Improvement Bill of 1830, one of the epoch-making vetoes in our economic history.
The last chapter is the vivid picture of Kentucky travel drawn by Judge James Hall in his description of “The Emigrants,” in Legends of the West.
The illustrations in this volume have been selected to show styles of pioneer architecture and means of locomotion, including types of earliest taverns, bridges, and vehicles.
A. B. H.
Marietta, Ohio, December 30, 1903.