. Book of the Royal blue . BRADDOCKS SPRING, NATIONAL KOAU If the Lincoln Road, so called, be-comes a reality, it is fitting that it passthrough the territory directly associated withthe great deeds of Lincoln, and in so doingit would also gather up the reins of events ofevery cycle of American history, its evolu-tions and revolutions, from the settlement affairs for a century and a half. Here andthere old taverns and toll gates, some ofthem relics of the early nineteenth century,would stand in mute testimony of the dayswhen horse was king of the road. Just such a road with such a history coul
. Book of the Royal blue . BRADDOCKS SPRING, NATIONAL KOAU If the Lincoln Road, so called, be-comes a reality, it is fitting that it passthrough the territory directly associated withthe great deeds of Lincoln, and in so doingit would also gather up the reins of events ofevery cycle of American history, its evolu-tions and revolutions, from the settlement affairs for a century and a half. Here andthere old taverns and toll gates, some ofthem relics of the early nineteenth century,would stand in mute testimony of the dayswhen horse was king of the road. Just such a road with such a history couldfollow L^nion Turnpike from Washington. A COUNTRY SEAT IN FREUEHICK VALLEY of the English at Jamestown and the Frenchat Fort Duquesne down through the Frenchand Indian wars, the War of the Revolution,the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Through this territory passed the lumber-ing conestoga on its march of civilization tothe West, followed by the building of thefirst railroad of America from Baltimore, the to Olney, through Laytonsville and Damas-cus to Ridgeville, on the National Road,and thence to Frederick. From Frederickpass through the beautiful MiddletownValley, through the town of Middletown toperhaps Bolivar, where a cross-country cutcould be taken to Antietam, whose bloodyfield made Lincoln firm in his purpose to THE PROPOSED LINCOLN ROAD 15
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