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

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class="nodec pginternal" href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@41799@[email protected]#CHAPTER_XXXIV" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">CHAPTER XXXIV.

  Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued—Uniontown to Searights 244-249 CHAPTER XXXV.   Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued—Searights to Brownsville 250-259 CHAPTER XXXVI.   Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued—Brownsville to Beallsville 260-265 CHAPTER XXXVII.   Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued—Beallsville to Washington 266-272 CHAPTER XXXVIII.   Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued—Washington, Penn.—Washington and Jefferson College—The Female Seminary 273-282 CHAPTER XXXIX.   Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued—Washington to West Alexander 283-289 CHAPTER XL.   Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued—West Alexander to Wheeling 290-297 CHAPTER XLI.   West of Wheeling—Old Stage Lines Beyond the Ohio River—Through Indiana—The Road Disappears Among the Prairies of Illinois 298-310 CHAPTER XLII.   Superintendents under National and State Control—Old Mile Posts, etc. 311-318 CHAPTER XLIII.   Old Contractors—Cost of the Road—Contractors for Repairs, etc. 319-322 CHAPTER XLVI.   Thomas Endsley, William Sheets, W. M. F. Magraw, etc. 323-328 CHAPTER XLV.   Dumb Ike—Reminiscences of Uniontown—Crazy Billy, etc. 329-338 CHAPTER XLVI.   The Trial of Dr. John F. Braddee for Robbing the U.S. Mails 339-352 CHAPTER XLVII.   Visit of John Quincy Adams to Uniontown in 1837—Received by Dr. Hugh Campbell—The National Road a Monument of the Past—A Comparison with the Appian Way 353-356 CHAPTER APPENDIX.   Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania Relating to the Cumberland Road—Unexpended Balances in Indiana—Accounts of Two Old Commissioners—Rates of Toll—Letters of Albert Gallatin, Ebenezer Finley and Thomas A. Wiley—Curiosities of the Old Postal Service 357-384

ILLUSTRATIONS.

T. B. Searight Frontispiece
Old Mile Post 5
Stage House and Stables at Mt. Washington 13
Gen. Henry W. Beeson 15
Hon. Daniel Sturgeon 16
Hon. Andrew Stewart 47
Old Toll House 53
Iron Bridge over Dunlap’s Creek 95
Hon. T. M. T. McKennan 107

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