. Book of the Royal blue . LIBRARY of OONOKtSSTwo Cnoles Rectlvmt JUN 36 1906 - Cooyneni EntryOIAST© ^ C?ip~B. f<C Book of the Royal Blue. Published MonthlyCopyright, 1906, by the Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. (All rights resorved.) William Elliott Lowes, Editor. Vol. IX. BALTIMORE, JUNE, 1906. No. 9 WILL THE OLD NATIONAL PIKE BE REVIVED? THl, iiitroductioTi of a bill in Congressfor the restoration of the landmarksand the reconstruction of tiie old■ National Road, has awakened possi- bilities of a most interesting idea originates in the growing deman
. Book of the Royal blue . LIBRARY of OONOKtSSTwo Cnoles Rectlvmt JUN 36 1906 - Cooyneni EntryOIAST© ^ C?ip~B. f<C Book of the Royal Blue. Published MonthlyCopyright, 1906, by the Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. (All rights resorved.) William Elliott Lowes, Editor. Vol. IX. BALTIMORE, JUNE, 1906. No. 9 WILL THE OLD NATIONAL PIKE BE REVIVED? THl, iiitroductioTi of a bill in Congressfor the restoration of the landmarksand the reconstruction of tiie old■ National Road, has awakened possi- bilities of a most interesting idea originates in the growing demandfor good roads in America, and it no doubt St. Clairsville, Cambridge, Zanesvdlle, Co-lumbus and Springfield in Ohio ; Richmond,Indianapolis and Terre Haute in Indiana,continuing the road as originally planned toSt. Louis; then to make two grand boule-vards on to the Pacific, one of which willcross Montana to Puget Sound and the. TOLL-GATE ON OLD NATIONAL IIKK. will become a national issue sooner or later,since automobiles have come to stay andare almost universally used. The plan now is to resuscitate tiie oldNational Pike through Frederick, Hagers-town, Hancock and Cumberland in Mary-land ; Iniontown, Washington and Clays-ville in Pennsylvania; Wheeling, W. \ other follow the Santa Fe trail to San Fran-cisco. This contemplates of course the con-struction of a boulevard from Washingtonconnecting with the old road from Fred-erick, and at its last session, just adjourned,tiie Maryland Legislature an appro-priation for the reconstruction of the roadbetween Baltimore and Washington as a WILL THE OLD NATIONAL PIKE BE REVIVED. l)oulevard, and whicli is practically tlie tirststep in the movement. It would be most interesting therefore toreview the historv of the oriKinal National The Government then took hold and builtacross the Appalachian ranire of mountainsthrough the towns named to the Ohio Riverat Whe
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