America, Volume 2 (of 6)

America, Volume 2 (of 6)

The Old PikeThe National RoadEarly Routes Across the MountainsOld Lancaster RoadColumbia RailroadThe Pennsylvania RouteHaverford CollegeVilla NovaBryn Mawr CollegePaoliGeneral WayneThe Chester ValleyPequea ValleyThe ConestogasLancasterFranklin and Marshall CollegeJames BuchananThaddeus StevensConewago HillsSusquehanna RiverColumbiaThe Underground RailroadMiddletownLochielSimon CameronThe Clan CameronHarrisburgCharles Dickens and the Camel's Back BridgeJohn HarrisLincoln's Midnight RideCumberland ValleyCarlisleIndian SchoolDickinson CollegeThe Whisky InsurrectionTom the TinkerLebanon ValleyCornwall Ore BanksOtsego LakeCooperstownJames Fenimore CooperRichfield SpringsCherry ValleySharon SpringsHowe's CaveBinghamtonNorthumberlandWilliamsportSunburyFort AugustaThe Dauphin GapDuncannonDuncan's IslandJuniata RiverTuscarora GapThe Grasshopper WarMifflinLewistown NarrowsKishicoquillas ValleyLoganJack's NarrowsHuntingdonThe Standing StoneBedfordMorrison's CoveThe Sinking SpringBrainerd, the MissionaryTyroneBellefonteAltoonaHollidaysburgThe Portage RailroadBlair's GapThe Horse ShoeKittanning PointThomas Blair and Michael MaguireLorettoPrince GallitzinEbensburgCresson SpringsThe Conemaugh RiverSouth ForkJohnstownThe Great FloodLaurel RidgePacksaddle NarrowsChestnut RidgeKiskiminetas RiverLoyalhanna CreekFort LigonierGreat Bear CaveHannastownGeneral Arthur St. ClairGreensburgBraddock's DefeatPittsburg, the Iron CityMonongahela RiverAllegheny RiverOhio RiverFort 276 DuquesneFort PittView from Mount WashingtonPittsburg BuildingsGreat FactoriesAndrew CarnegieGeorge Westinghouse, Jr.Allegheny Park and MonumentCoal and CokeDavis Island DamYoughiogheny RiverConnellsvilleNatural GasMurrysvillePetroleumCanonsburgWashingtonPetroleum DevelopmentKittanningModoc Oil DistrictFort VenangoOil CityPithole CityOil CreekTitusvilleCorryDecadence of Oil-Fields. The American aspiration has always been to go westward. In the early history of the Republic the Government gave great attention to the means of reaching the Western frontier, then cut off by what was regarded as the almost insurmountable barrier of the Alleghenies. General Washington was the first to project a chain of internal improvements across the mountains, by the route of the Potomac to Cumberland, then a Maryland frontier fort, and thence by roads to the headwaters of the Ohio. The initial enactment was procured by him from the Virginia Legislature in 1774, for improving the navigation of the Potomac; but the Revolutionary War interfered, and he renewed the movement afterwards in 1784, resulting in the charter of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, of which Washington was the first President. Little was done at that early period, however, in building the canal, but the Government constructed the famous "National Road," the first highway over the Allegheny Mountains, from Cumberland in Maryland, mainly through Southwestern Pennsylvania, to 277 Wheeling on the Ohio. This noted highway was finished and used throughout in 1818, and, until the railways crossed the mountains, it was the great route of travel to the West. It was familiarly known as the "Old Pike," and Thomas B. Searight has entertainingly recorded its pleasant memories, for it has now become mainly a relic of the past: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41742
Author: Cook, Joel
Release Date: Dec 31, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English