On this date in History .... 1806:
Congress
authorizes a survey to begin constructing the Cumberland Road, which began
in Cumberland Maryland and stretched west.
The Army Corp of Engineers did the
survey and also did the construction which started in 1811. It took seven years
to complete the road through the Appalachians to Wheeling, W. Virginia.
Stagecoaches and other traffic filled the
road and by 1850 the road, which had earned the name “The National Road”, had
extended all the way west to Indianapolis. The road today is known as U.S. 40
and stretches to California.
As a
footnote to this story, you may recall my October 28th posting/blog about
the Madonna of the Trail statues that were placed along The National Road.
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