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قراءة كتاب The Old Pike A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes thereon
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The Old Pike A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes thereon
THE OLD PIKE.
A HISTORY OF
THE NATIONAL ROAD,
WITH
INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, AND ANECDOTES
THEREON.
ILLUSTRATED.
BY
THOMAS B. SEARIGHT.
UNIONTOWN, PA:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1894.
Copyright, 1894, by T. B. Searight.
PRESSES OF
M. CULLATON & CO.,
RICHMOND, IND.
LETTER FROM JAMES G. BLAINE.
| Stanwood, Bar Harbor, Maine. September 8th, 1892. |
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Hon. T. B. Searight,
Uniontown, Pa.
My Dear Friend:—
I have received the sketches of the “Old Pike” regularly and have as regularly read them, some of them more than once, especially where you come near the Monongahela on either side of it, and thus strike the land of my birth and boyhood. I could trace you all the way to Washington, at Malden, at Centreville, at Billy Greenfield’s in Beallsville, at Hillsboro (Billy Robinson was a familiar name), at Dutch Charley Miller’s, at Ward’s, at Pancake, and so on—familiar names, forever endeared to my memory. I cherish the desire of riding over the “Old Pike” with you, but I am afraid we shall contemplate it as a scheme never to be realized.
Very sincerely,
Your friend,
JAMES G. BLAINE.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGES |
| Inception of the Road—Author’s Motive in Writing its History—No History of the Appian Way—A Popular Error Corrected—Henry Clay, Andrew Stewart, T. M. T. McKennan, General Beeson, Lewis Steenrod and Daniel Sturgeon—Their Services in Behalf of the Road, etc., etc. | 13-19 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Origin of the Fund for Making the Road—Acts for the Admission of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, etc., etc. | 20-24 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The Act of Congress Authorizing the Laying Out and Making of the Road | 25-27 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Special Message of President Jefferson—Communicating to Congress the First Report of the Commissioners—Uniontown left out, etc. | 28-35 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Pennsylvania grants Permission to make the Road through her Territory—Uniontown Restored, Gist left Out, and Washington, Pennsylvania, made a Point—Heights of Mountains and Hills—On to Brownsville and Wheeling, etc., etc. | 36-40 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, called upon for Information Respecting the Fund Applicable to the Roads mentioned in the Ohio Admission Act—His Responses | 41-43 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Life of the Road Threatened by the Spectre of a Constitutional Cavil—President Monroe Vetoes a Bill for its Preservation and Repair—General Jackson has Misgivings—Hon. Andrew Stewart Comes to the Rescue | 44-51 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| State Authority Prevails—The Road Surrendered by Congress—The Erection of Toll Gates Authorized— Commissioners Appointed by the States to Receive the Road, etc., etc. | 52-56 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Plan of Repairs—The Macadam System Adopted—Mr. Stockton offers his services—Captain Delafield made Superintendent, etc., etc. | 57-63 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Lieut. Mansfield superseded by Capt. Delafield—The Turning of Wills Mountain, etc., etc. | 64-76 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| On with the Work—Wooden Bridges Proposed for the New Location up Wills Creek and Braddock’s Run—The War Department holds that Wooden Superstructures would be a Substantial Compliance with the Maryland Law—Cumberland to Frostburg, etc. | 77-86 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Gen. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, Transmits a Report—More about the Wooden Bridges for the New Location near Cumberland, etc. | 87-94 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| The Iron Bridge over Dunlap’s Creek at Brownsville | 95-99 |