. sultedin the railroads—the first and main lines of which substantially follow the greatIndian trails. In 1768 the court appointed Edward Crawford, Jonah Cook, George Brown,William McBrier, William Holliday and William McDowell, viewers, to locatea road from James Campbells, near Loudon, through Chambersburg, to thecounty line in Blacks Gap. This is now substantially the route of the presentturnpike road. When Chambersburg was laid out as a town, the road toward Shippensburgcrossed the spring at the present fording on King Street, a
. sultedin the railroads—the first and main lines of which substantially follow the greatIndian trails. In 1768 the court appointed Edward Crawford, Jonah Cook, George Brown,William McBrier, William Holliday and William McDowell, viewers, to locatea road from James Campbells, near Loudon, through Chambersburg, to thecounty line in Blacks Gap. This is now substantially the route of the presentturnpike road. When Chambersburg was laid out as a town, the road toward Shippensburgcrossed the spring at the present fording on King Street, and following itscourse through the Indian burial place and the yard of the PresbyterianChurch, finally joined the present road in front of the church, and pursued itseastward course several rods distant from the present turnpike, but nearlyparallel with it. The only place where the Conococheague could be crossednear the southern limit of the town was at the lower fording, at Lemonsfactory, where the bridge now is. At this ancient fording Col. Chambers once. o
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