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Early American Roads and Trails - Freepages - Ancestry.com  Early American Roads and Trails, with descriptions of 18 of the major early ... Braddock's road was the first road to cross overland through the Appalachian Mountains ... The Cumberland Road and its extension West became known as the National ... away all of the land in southwestern Michigan east of the St. Joseph River.
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The National Road - First Highway in America  The National Road built in 1811 makes a path through the states of Illinois, Indiana, ... and construction began later that year, with the road reaching Cumberland, ... Eventually the road was pushed through central Ohio and Indiana reaching ... Route 40 served as a major east-west artery until the Federal-Aid Highway Act of...
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The National Road - Back in Time - General Highway History ...  In 1811 the first contract was awarded and the first 10 miles of road built. ... The road, also called the Cumberland Road, National Pike and other names, ... Huge Conestoga wagons hauled produce from frontier farms to the East ... Thousands moved west in covered wagons and stagecoaches traveled the road keeping to...
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National Road - Wikipedia  The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the ... Construction began heading west in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, on the ... The road has also been referred to as the Cumberland Turnpike, the ... 1824, connecting the National Road (also known as the "Old National Pike") with...
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Part 1: The Quest for a National Road - The National Old Trails Road ...  8 cited the experience with the Cumberland Road as evidence that furnishing .... A pamphlet called The Old Santa Fe Trail Across Arizona discussed some of the history. .... West of Needles, the road also can be traced to Father Garces. ... Indiana, and Illinois, where Congress intended for the road to reach the east bank of...
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Cumberland Gap - Tennessee History for Kids  A group of men led by Daniel Boone blazed the Wilderness Road in 1775, ... of the gap, or the exact place where the trail passes through the mountain pass. ... at the exact spot where Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia converge (Lines are...
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Fort McHenry Tunnel (I-95) - DCRoads.net  Descriptive history of the Fort McHenry Tunnel (I-95) through Baltimore, Maryland. ... The Harbor Tunnel Thruway (today's I-895) was built during the 1950's to serve as ... the negative effects of the city's proposed Interstate highway network. ... Under the Section 4(f) provisions of the US Department of Transportation Act of...
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M-1 (Michigan highway) - Wikipedia  M-1, commonly known as Woodward Avenue, is a northsouth state trunkline highway in the ... In between, Woodward Avenue passes through several historic districts in .... diverge and form a one-way loop around the city's business district. .... On November 11, 1926, the United States Numbered Highway System was...
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Cumberland Gap National Historical Park - National Park Service  May 15, 2007 ... Indians used Cumberland Gap as a gateway through the mountains long before ... caused these settlers to probe for the least hazardous routes westward. .... hunters under the leadership of James Knox during the winter of 1770-71. ... March 10, 1775, Boone with about thirty axmen hacked out a road which...
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The Wilderness Road - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  In 1775, the now-legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone blazed a trail through ... Cherokee and Shawnee later used the trails to make attacks on each other. ... the Cumberland Gap using part of what would become the Wilderness Road. Did You Know? Though Daniel Boone became famous as a symbol of the pioneering...
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Wilderness Road - Wikipedia  The Wilderness Road was the principal route used by settlers for more than five years to reach Kentucky from the East. In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail for the Transylvania Company from Fort .... Starting on March 10, 1775 Boone, along with 35 axmen, cut a trail from Long Island in Kingsport, Tennessee through the...
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The Wilderness Road - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  In 1775, the now-legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone blazed a trail through the ... knowledge of the existing trails, to blaze a new trail through the Cumberland Gap. ... On March 10, 1775, Boone and around 30 other ax-wielding road cutters ... towards western settlement began, and it would continue throughout the war...
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Cumberland Gap National Historical Park - National Park Service  Through Cumberland Gap, a natural passage through the forbidding Allegheny ... Hacked out in 1775 into Kentucky by a party under Daniel Boone, this road was ... Through the gap once passed the Wilderness Road, a route hacked out by a ... now Kingsport, Tenn., in March of 1775 Boone led 30 axmen in cutting the road.
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The State of Indiana - An Introduction to the Hoosier State from ...  On January 1, 1833, the Indianapolis Journal used John Finley's poem, "The Hoosier's Nest" as their "Carriers' Address". Indiana may have been referred to as "The Hoosier State" since the early 1830s. There are many explanations for this nickname, some of them quite illogical and humorous and others believable.
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Wilderness Road - Wikipedia  The Wilderness Road was the principal route used by settlers for more than five years to reach Kentucky from the East. In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail for the Transylvania Company from Fort Chiswell in Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky.
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Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) - Wikipedia  The Treaty of Fort Wayne, sometimes called the Ten O'clock Line Treaty or the Twelve Mile Line Treaty, is an 1809 treaty that obtained 3,000,000 acres (approximately 12,000 km) of American Indian land for the white settlers of Illinois and Indiana. The tribes involved were the Delaware, Eel River, Miami tribe, and ... in the territory being purchased, but he refused to purchase land by the acre.
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United States Numbered Highways - Wikipedia  The system of United States Numbered Highways is an integrated network of roads and ... Generally, north-to-south highways are odd-numbered, with lowest numbers in ... In 1925, the Joint Board on Interstate Highways, recommended by the ... opposite from the US grid insofar as the direction the route numbers increase.
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Cumberland Gap | mountain pass, United States | Britannica.com  The pass was discovered in 1750 by Thomas Walker, and the Wilderness Road ... Named for the duke of Cumberland, son of George II, it became the main artery ... blaze a trail through Cumberland Gap, a notch in the Appalachian Mountains...
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Overseas Highway - Florida Keys  The Overseas Highway, sometimes called "the Highway that Goes to Sea," is a modern wonder. It is the "magic carpet" by which visitors from Florida's mainland can cross ... The railroad ceased operations on the Miami-Key West link in 1935, ... First completed in 1938, it marked the beginning of an equally incredible...
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The National Road - Fort Necessity National Battlefield (U.S. ...  Map of Historic National Road The National Road linked the eastern and western states in the first half of the 19th century, running from Cumberland, Maryland...
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Interstate 30 - Wikipedia  Business  Spurs  Scenic  Heritage Trails. Interstate 30 (I-30) is an Interstate Highway in the southern United States. While most interstate routes ending in zero are major cross country routes, I-30 is a comparatively short regional route serving only two states. I-30 runs from I-20 west of Fort Worth, Texas, northeast via Dallas, and .... The DallasFort Worth Turnpike was a 30-mile (48 km) toll highway in the...