. Book of the Royal blue . Book of the Royal Blue. PuBMSHKi) Monthly by thePassenger Department ok the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol, III. BALTIMORE, .MKIL, 1900. No. 7. THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD. To look back to the beginning of thepassing century is to marvel how thepeople of that time could have ex-isted with the wretched means for trans-portation then available. The roads thenin use were well-nigh to driveover, except during the driest season, anda journey was a disagreeable condition of affairs was not long tobe endured, and about 1806, during the formed the Old
. Book of the Royal blue . Book of the Royal Blue. PuBMSHKi) Monthly by thePassenger Department ok the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol, III. BALTIMORE, .MKIL, 1900. No. 7. THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD. To look back to the beginning of thepassing century is to marvel how thepeople of that time could have ex-isted with the wretched means for trans-portation then available. The roads thenin use were well-nigh to driveover, except during the driest season, anda journey was a disagreeable condition of affairs was not long tobe endured, and about 1806, during the formed the Old National Pike. The roadwas thrown open to the public some timeduring the year 1818 and at once assumedthe distinction of being the great thorough-fare between the East and West, carryingpractically all the commerce, travel andmails. The National Road was built to connectthe principal cities of the East with theOhio River, where connection with boats. OLIi TOLL (iATK OX THK NATIONAL liOAl). administration of President Jefferson, asolution of the difficulty took practicalshape, and the birth of the National Roadwas an established fact. This road wasgenerally known as the Cumberland Road,starting as it did at Cumberland, .Mary-land, quite naturally assumed the name ofthat town. An older road extended fromthere to Baltimore, which had been builtby individuals, but the two together really was possible to the vast expanse of countrydrained by the Ohio and Mississippi \s the road reached the Ohio River at apoint on its eastern bank where roads madeingress into the state an accomplish-ment for the traveler, the territory thusexposed, with what was covered in Mary-land and Pennsylvania, made the thorough-fare one of national importance to thepeople of the country. Recognition of this THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD. fact led to great prohibitory precau-tions for shoddy or careless construction,and the road to-day astounds one with itss
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