. Book of the Royal blue . roadways be used for the purpose. Appar-ently, the geographical layout would benorth on Seventh Street in Washington toSligo, Md. ; thence via the Union Turnpiketo Cooksville on the IVederick Turnpike, orold National Road; thence northwardon the Washington Road through HoodsMill to Westminster; from Westminster. usual opportunities are afforded, from an his-torical point of view, to construct a Go\ ern-ment road that would be one of the mostinteresting of the worlds great memorials. northwest via the Reisterstown Road throughTaneytown to Emmitsburg, and from Em-mitsb
. Book of the Royal blue . roadways be used for the purpose. Appar-ently, the geographical layout would benorth on Seventh Street in Washington toSligo, Md. ; thence via the Union Turnpiketo Cooksville on the IVederick Turnpike, orold National Road; thence northwardon the Washington Road through HoodsMill to Westminster; from Westminster. usual opportunities are afforded, from an his-torical point of view, to construct a Go\ ern-ment road that would be one of the mostinteresting of the worlds great memorials. northwest via the Reisterstown Road throughTaneytown to Emmitsburg, and from Em-mitsburg over the historical EmmitsburgRoad, which was the backbone of the Anyone who knows the heart of Marylandcan fully appreciate the grandeur of such aproposition. „ To build a boule\ ard in a straight linefrom Washington to Gettysburg would be a Confederate formation at the battle ofGettysburg. From an engineering viewpoint this wouldprobably be the direct route, but it wouldnot have as much historical interest as a comparatively easy matter, as far as right of route diverging from Cooksville over the oldway is concerned, if the present existing National Road to Frederick and thence 14 THE PROPOSED LINCOLN ROAD northward on the Frederick and Emmits-burg Turnpike to Emmitsburg and thenceto Gettysburg. But since the proposition h
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