The National Road: Most Historic Thoroughfare in the United States, and Strategic Eastern Link in the National Old Trails Ocean-to-Ocean Highway (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The National Road: Most Historic Thoroughfare in the United States, and Strategic Eastern Link in the National Old Trails Ocean-to-Ocean Highway

Maryland and Pennsylvania have so greatly improved their portions of the National Road that through travel over it is rapidly increasing. There is also a growing interest in historic places, so many of which are found along the route from Baltimore and Washington across the Alleghany Mountains to the Ohio River at Wheeling, and the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers at St. Louis.

The detailed maps on the following pages are intended not only as a correct guide to the route - which is very easily followed throughout - but also as a study in topography, especially through the mountain sections. In the present edition these maps are carried only from Washington and Baltimore to Wheeling; but it is expected to shortly extend them to St. Louis, and ultimately over the National Old Trails route to the Pacific Coast.

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