. Guide to Baltimore & Ohio railroad . BRADDOCKS GRAVE. EMIL FISH£R. SCOXJRER, ESTABLISHED 1SS3, And Afent for the Hew York Dyeiog and Piinting Estailishment, Worlis on. Staten. Island, nVe\v TiTork:,ESTABLISHED 1819, Office, 139 W. Fayette St., bet. Par^ and Howard Sts., Baltimore, Md. N. B.—Parties residing at a distance from the city can forward their Goods byEipreaa, and have tiiem returned in the same O Ph o QO 75 althoapjh the sparkling waters of Wills Creek laved the base of thefortress of tbe ancient Fort Cumberland. The garrison were com-pelled to abandon its use on a
. Guide to Baltimore & Ohio railroad . BRADDOCKS GRAVE. EMIL FISH£R. SCOXJRER, ESTABLISHED 1SS3, And Afent for the Hew York Dyeiog and Piinting Estailishment, Worlis on. Staten. Island, nVe\v TiTork:,ESTABLISHED 1819, Office, 139 W. Fayette St., bet. Par^ and Howard Sts., Baltimore, Md. N. B.—Parties residing at a distance from the city can forward their Goods byEipreaa, and have tiiem returned in the same O Ph o QO 75 althoapjh the sparkling waters of Wills Creek laved the base of thefortress of tbe ancient Fort Cumberland. The garrison were com-pelled to abandon its use on account of t-he unerring and deadly In-dian arrows, that were showered upon them whenever they emergedfrom behind their ramparts, except in full armor and force. The other interesting trans-Alleghany highway is the old Na-tional road. This great road in days of yore had its eastern ter-minus at the General Wayne Tavern, northwest corner of Baltimoreand Paca streets. This road left Baltimore in the route of thepresent Baltimore street, and at the western limits of the city wasknown, and is now known as far as the city of Frederick, as theFrederick road or Turnpike. Westward of Frederick it has main-tained its baptismal name of National road. This road extendsfrom Baltimore over the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains toIndianapolis, Ohio, to the distance of nearly five hundred miles, andwas, previous to the Baltimore
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