ISBN: 9781146529914

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: .other part of the road bears weeds and grass. The first American turnpike was not in Pennsylvania, as is usually stated, but in Virginia. It connected Alexandria (then supposed to be the rising metropolis) with "Sniggers and Vesta's Gaps"-that is, the lower Shenandoah. This turnpike This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: .other part of the road bears weeds and grass. The first American turnpike was not in Pennsylvania, as is usually stated, but in Virginia. It connected Alexandria (then supposed to be the rising metropolis) with "Sniggers and Vesta's Gaps"-that is, the lower Shenandoah. This turnpike was started in 1785-86, and Thomas Jefferson pronounced it a success. In 1787 the Grand Jury of Baltimore reported the state of the country roads as a public grievance, and the Frederick, Reisterstown, and York roads were laid out anew by the county as turnpikes with toll-gates. In 1804 these roads were granted to corporate companies. Others soon followed, till all the main roads through Maryland were turnpikes. The most important early turnpike was the one known as the National Road because it was made by the national government. It extended at first from Cumberland to Wheeling, and was afterward carried farther. When first opened it was a hundred and thirty miles long, and cost one and threequarters millions of dollars. Proposed in Congress in 1797, an act providing for its construction was passed' nine vears later, and the first mail-coach carrying the United States mail travelled over it in August, 1818. It was a splendid road, sixty feet wide, of stone broken to pass through a three-inch ring, then covered with gravel and rolled down with an iron roller. One who saw the constructive work on it wrote:-"That great contractor, Mordecai Cochran, with his immortal Irish brigade-a thousand strong, with their carts, wheelbarrows, picks, shovels, and blasting-tools, graded the commons and climbed the mountain side, leaving behind them a roadway good enough for an emperor." Over this National Road journeyed many congressmen to and from Washington; and the mail. Books, Biography & Autobiography~~General, Stage-Coach-and-Tavern-Days~~Alice-Morse-Earle, 999999999, Stage-Coach And Tavern Days, Alice Morse Earle, 1146529910, Nabu Press, , , , , Nabu Press<

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ISBN: 9781146529914

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ISBN: 9781146529914

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