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From: James Gordon< >
Subject: Re: Braddock's Road
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:37:40 -0700


Anelle Kloski wrote:
>
> >From THE GENESIS OF WESTERN CULTURE by Miller: "The routes by which the
> pioneer settlers sought the West were four in number...(two of these
> four were) the most direct lines of communication between the important
> eastern ports of entry and the head of navigation on the Ohio at
> Pittsburgh...the more northerly of the two was called the Raystown Path,
> then Forbes' Road, the Pennsylvania Road, and finally, in modern days,
> the Lincoln Highway. The more southerly route became famous as
> Braddock's Road, then as the Cumberland Pike, and later as the National
> Pike." He says the other two of the four were tracks which became the
> Genesee Road and the Wilderness Road.
>
> Anelle McCarty Kloski

The Lincoln Highway became part of United States Highway #40 (aka US40) and The National
Road became US50 when the United States Highway System was instituted after the
"horseless carriage" became extensive. The Lincoln Highway was the first
transcontinental highway. There is a marker in San Francisco, CA which commemorates the
completion of the Lincoln Highway.
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Cheers,

Jim Gordon, Laurel, MD USA

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