Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1930, Page 118

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e SouTH BEND HE OLP> NATIONAL ¢ ,Loem;?o? : | ROAD. —* CoLumMBuUS Al AD ’ ) d L £ 328 nAT memew = DAYTON OHIO INDIANAPOLIS TLLENONS ; ‘_ EAST ST.LoutS P 4 “I'ERRE HAUTE ! J i INDIANA VANDALIA "THE NATIONAL ROAD REACHED VANDALIA IN 1852 .- HERE IT STOPPED- TNE ROAD REACHED WHEELING IN 1817 : PITTSBURG PENNSYLVANIA ~HAGERSTOWN . e s = .- CUMBERLAND VIRGINIA ¥’ THE EASTERN PART OF THE ROAD WAS 80 FEET WIDE WITH A BED OF CRUSHED STONE 30 FEET WIDE —r ' MD. gaimmore REDERICI 0o = WASHINGTON A DIRT ROAD CONNECTED VANDALIA WITH EAST ST.LOUIS- .AND COMMLUINICATION 1S LARGELY DEPENDENT UPON GOOD ROADS, PARTICULARLY $O IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TERRITORY., —— e ROADS HAVE PLAYED AN )MPORTANT PART (N THE HISTORY QF THE UNITED STATES, OPENING REMOTE, WILDERNESS REGIONS To SETTLEMENT, AND AFFORDING ARTERIES OF COMMUNICATION AND COMMERCE. . SoME OF THE MOST FAMoUS AMERICAN ROADS WERE DEVELOPED FROM OLD TRAILS WORN SMOOTH BY BUFFALOES, WHICH ONCE ROAMED> AS FAR EAST AS THE APPALACHIANS - WAR A PARTY OF BACKWOODSMEN HEADED BY DANIEL BOONE ,CUT A ROAD THROUGH THE WILDERNESS FROM THE WATAUGA SETTLEMENTS TO KENTUCKY. o 111 For MANY YEARS BOONES WILDERNESS ROAD WAS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL ROUTES TO KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. : Y, ALy OR A HALF CERTURY AN ENDLESS STREAM OF IMMIGRANTS, WITH THEIR HOUSEHOLD GOOPS, POURED OVER THIS FAMOUS HIGHWAY SEEK- ING HOMES IN THE NEWLY-OPENED LANDS IN THE WEST. . (Copyright, 1930, by J. Carroll Mansfield) SHORTEST ROUTE FROM RIVER TORIVEQ AND THE EASIEST WAY THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS. AV " THE EAST THE HERPS COULD> NOT MOVE IN MASS, BUT TRA- N VELLED A FEW ABREAST, LEAVING WELL-WORN TRAILS BEHIND THEM, ——> /7// Ao 1 THERE WAS A GREAT DEMAND FOR. GOOP> ROADS TO BRING ALL PARTS OF THE NEW NATION INTO CLOSER COMMUNY- CATION. BUT CONGRESS AND THE STATES HAD BEEN IMPOVERISHE) BY THE WAR. . Tl QEFOQE THE ADVENT AND SPREAD OF THE RAILROADS,GREAT DROVES OF CATTLE, SHEEP AND> HOGS WERE DRIVEN ON THE HOOF OVER THE NATIONAL ROAD FROM THE OHIO COUNTRY TO THE MAR- KETS OF THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD. IN THE CENTER - % THE WHITE MEN THE W/ 1uDIANS HAD ESTABLISHED REGULAR TRAILS FROM ONE I HUNTING GROUND TO ANOTHER, IRIVATE COMPANIES BEGAN TO BUILP ROADS,GETTING THEIR MONEY BACIK WITH INTEREST BY CHARGING TOLLS. THE FIRST OF THESE HIGHWAYS WAS THE LANCASTER TURNPIKE (1794), CONNECTING PHILADELPHIA AND LAN- "~ / PROVED A FINANCIAL SUCCESS = AND LED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIMILAR PROJECTS IN OTHER STATES. {4 HE NATCHEZ ROAD, DATING FROM 1808, WHICH LED FROM NASH- VILLE TO NEW ORLEANS, . ... PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ! PART (NTHE DEVELOP- MENT OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. ROAD TRAVELLED THE TRAPERS WHO BROUGHT THE PRODUCTS OF THE OHIO VALLEY AP THE EAST DOWN THE Missi5- By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD 18 ATER, THE WHITE SETTLERS USED MANY OF THESE TRAILS, WIDENING AND LEVELLING THEM INTO ROADS, MOST OF WHICH HOWEVER,WERE = LITTLE MORE _~ == THAN BRIDLE PATHS.~* S VER THESE EARLY DIRT ROADS PASSEP THE POST RIDERS AND STAGE COACHES OF COLONIAL DAYS.— < , 7 s AT A /, o E3IN 1808 THE GOVERNMENT BEGAN THE WORIK OF EXTENDING THE CUMBERLAND ROAD (A FINE ROAD LEADING FROM BALTIMORE, 70 CUMBERLAND,MARYLAND) OVER THE ! MOUNTAINS TO WHEELING (W.VA). e e B S B ol = THIS HIGRWAY, WHICH CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL ROAD, WAS GRADUALLY EXTENDED THROUGH THE OHIO COLINTRY ALMOST TO THE MlSSlSSlPP‘,AND UNTIL 1852 WAS THE CHIEF ARTERY OF COMMU- NICATION WITH THE WEST, —————a - (ARROL fyn %ANSAIE(D - HE PRINCIPAL ROUTE THROUGH THEOLP> NORTHWEST WAS THE MICHIGAN RoaD, DATING FROM 1826, WHICH RAN FROM THE OHIO, CROSSING THE NATIONAL ROAD AT INDIANAPOL!S, TO THE SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN. A ROAP LEADING FROM THE OHIO TO THE CuM - BERLANP LINKED THE MICHIGAN ROAD WITH _MADISON 2 THE NATCHEZ ROAD>, FORMING A CONTINUOUS HIGHWAY FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO THE GULF —— = — 70 BE CONTINUED> ==

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