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On National Highway (Alternate U.S. 40) 0.4 miles west of Winchester Road (Maryland Route 53), on the left when traveling west.
Dedicated to
the pioneers who
with heroic sacrifice
and undaunted courage
blazed this old trail
now known as
the National Highway
and thus opened
"The Gateway to the West" — — Map (db m199894) HM
On Vocke Road (Maryland Route 53(658)) south of Exit 40 (Interstate 68).
General Braddock’s 1st camp on the march from Fort Cumberland to Fort Duquesne, June 11th to 13th, 1755. After building a road over Wills Mountain, Spendelow, an engineer, discovered a route by “The Narrows” and Braddock’s Run and a . . . — — Map (db m2083) HM
Near Cash Valley Road south of Stoney Creek Drive, on the right when traveling south.
In 1912 a Western Maryland Railway cut near Cumberland exposed a small cave. The cave, which became known as the Cumberland Bone Cave was found to contain a remarkable variety of bones from species now extinct. Paleontologists were called in from . . . — — Map (db m203720) HM
On National Highway SW (U.S. 40), on the left when traveling west.
First toll gate house on the old National (Cumberland) Road. Erected about 1833 after this portion of the road was turned over to the State of Maryland by the United States government. There was one other toll gate in Maryland on this Road. — — Map (db m442) HM
Near National Highway SW (U.S. 40), on the left when traveling west. Reported permanently removed.
Toll houses were built along the National Road as a result of a 25 year national debate as to whether or not the federal government should be responsible for funding road improvements. While there was agreement on the idea that those who used the . . . — — Map (db m443) HM
On National Highway (Alternate U.S. 40) 0.4 miles west of Winchester Road (Maryland Route 53), on the left when traveling west.
Toll houses were built along the National Road as a result of a 25 year national debate as to whether or not the federal government should be responsible for funding road improvements. While there was agreement on the idea that those who used the . . . — — Map (db m199902) HM
On National Highway (Alternate U.S. 40) west of Mary Court, on the left when traveling west.
Was the first of the internal improvements undertaken by the U.S. Government. Surveys were authorized in 1806 over the route of “Braddock’s Road,” which followed “Nemacolin’s Path,” an Indian trail, over which George . . . — — Map (db m167131) HM