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Origin of the Fund for Making the Road--Acts for the Admission of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, etc., etc. 20-24

The Act of Congress Authorizing the Laying Out and Making of the Road 25-27

Special Message of President Jefferson--Communicating to Congress the First Report of the Commissioners--Uniontown left out, etc. 28-35

Pennsylvania grants Permission to make the Road through her Territory--Uniontown Restored, Gist left Out, and Washington, Pennsylvania, made a Point--Heights of Mountains and Hills--On to Brownsville and Wheeling, etc., etc. 36-40

Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, called upon for Information Respecting the Fund Applicable to the Roads mentioned in the Ohio Admission Act--His Responses 41-43

The Life of the Road Threatened by the Spectre of a Constitutional Cavil--President Monroe Vetoes a Bill for its Preservation and Repair--General Jackson has Misgivings--Hon. Andrew Stewart Comes to the Rescue 44-51

State Authority Prevails--The Road Surrendered by Congress--The Erection of Toll Gates Authorized-- Commissioners Appointed by the States to Receive the Road, etc., etc. 52-56

Plan of Repairs--The Macadam System Adopted--Mr. Stockton offers his services--Captain Delafield made Superintendent, etc., etc. 57-63

Lieut. Mansfield superseded by Capt. Delafield--The Turning of Wills Mountain, etc., etc. 64-76

On with the Work--Wooden Bridges Proposed for the New Location up Wills Creek and Braddock's Run--The War Department holds that Wooden Superstructures would be a Substantial Compliance with the Maryland Law--Cumberland to Frostburg, etc. 77-86

Gen. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, Transmits a Report--More about the Wooden Bridges for the New Location near Cumberland, etc. 87-94

The Iron Bridge over Dunlap's Creek at Brownsville 95-99

Appropriations by Congress at Various Times for Making, Repairing, and Continuing the Road 100-106

Speech of Hon. T. M. T. McKennan 107-108

Life on the Road--Origin of the Phrase Pike Boys--Slaves Driven like Horses--Race Distinction at the Old Taverns--Old Wagoners--Regulars and Sharpshooters-- Line Teams 109-115

Old Wagoners continued--Broad and Narrow Wheels--A Peculiar Wagon--An Experiment and a Failure--Wagon Beds--Bell Teams 116-119

Old Wagoners continued 120-126

Old Wagoners continued--The Harness they Used, etc. 127-133

Old Wagoners continued--An Exciting Incident of the Political Campaign of 1840--All about a Petticoat--A Trip to Tennessee--Origin of the Toby Cigar--The Rubber--The Windup and Last Lay of the Old Wagoners 134-145

Stage Drivers, Stage Lines and Stage Coaches--The Postillion, etc. 146-155

Stages and Stage Drivers continued--Character of Drivers Defended--Styles of Driving--Classification of Drivers, etc. 156-163

The First Mail Coaches--The Stage Yard at Uniontown--Names of Coaches--Henry Clay and the Drivers--Jenny Lind and Phineas T. Barnum on the Road, etc., etc. 164-174

Stages and Stage Drivers continued--Gen. Taylor Approaching Cumberland--Early Coaches, etc. 175-183

Distinguished Stage Proprietors--Lucius W. Stockton, James Reeside, Dr. Howard Kennedy, William H. Stelle--Old Stage Agents--The Pony Express 184-191

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers from Baltimore to Boonsboro--Pen Picture of an Old Tavern by James G. Blaine 192-196

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Boonsboro to Cumberland 197-203

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Cumberland to the Little Crossings--The City of Cumberland 204-208

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Little Crossings to Winding Ridge--Grantsville 209-213

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Winding Ridge to the Big Crossings--The State Line--How it is Noted 214-219

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Big Crossings to Mt. Washington 220-226

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Mt. Washington to Uniontown 227-233

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Uniontown--The Town as it Appeared to Gen. Douglass in 1784--Its Subsequent Growth and Improvement, etc., etc. 234-243

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Uniontown to Searights 244-249

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Searights to Brownsville 250-259

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Brownsville to Beallsville 260-265

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Beallsville to Washington 266-272

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Washington, Penn.--Washington and Jefferson College--The Female Seminary 273-282

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Washington to West Alexander 283-289

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--West Alexander to Wheeling 290-297

West of Wheeling--Old Stage Lines Beyond the Ohio River--Through Indiana--The Road Disappears Among the Prairies of Illinois 298-310

Superintendents under National and State Control--Old Mile Posts, etc. 311-318

Old Contractors--Cost of the Road--Contractors for Repairs, etc. 319-322

Thomas Endsley, William Sheets, W. M. F. Magraw, etc. 323-328

Dumb Ike--Reminiscences of Uniontown--Crazy Billy, etc. 329-338

The Trial of Dr. John F. Braddee for Robbing the U.S. Mails 339-352

Visit of John Quincy Adams to Uniontown in 1837--Received by Dr. Hugh Campbell--The National Road a Monument of the Past--A Comparison with the Appian Way 353-356

Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania Relating to the Cumberland Road--Unexpended Balances in Indiana--Accounts of Two Old Commissioners--Rates of Toll--Letters of Albert Gallatin, Ebenezer Finley and Thomas A. Wiley--Curiosities of the Old Postal Service 357-384

T. B. Searight Frontispiece Old Mile Post 5 Stage House and Stables at Mt. Washington 13 Gen. Henry W. Beeson 15 Hon. Daniel Sturgeon 16 Hon. Andrew Stewart 47 Old Toll House 53 Iron Bridge over Dunlap's Creek 95 Hon. T. M. T. McKennan 107 Road Wagon 109 John Thompson 111 Daniel Barcus 112 Henry Clay Rush 114 Harrison Wiggins 116 John Marker 118 Ellis B. Woodward 119 John Deets 121 John Snider 122 William Hall 124 John Wallace 126 Alfred Bailes 129 German D. Hair 130 Ashael Willison 135 Jacob Newcomer 137 John Ferren 138 Morris Mauler 140 James Smith, of Henry 144 Stage Coach 146 William Whaley 151 Redding Bunting 152 John Bunting 156 Samuel Luman 158 Joseph Whisson 162 Maj. William A. Donaldson 165 William G. Beck 168 Henry Farwell 171 The Narrows 176 Hanson Willison 178 Matt. Davis 180 John McIlree 182 L. W. Stockton 185 James Reeside 186 William H. Stelle 189 John Kelso 204 David Mahaney 210 John Risler 215 The Temple of Juno 217 The Endsley House 218 The Big Crossings 220 Daniel Collier 222 Sebastian Rush 225 Ruins of John Rush House 226 Hon. Samuel Shipley 229 Stone House, Darlington's 230 James Snyder 232 Gen. Ephraim Douglass 235 Aaron Wyatt 239 The Brownfield House 240 Col. Samuel Elder 242 The Searight House 245 Joseph Gray 247 William Shaw 248 Abel Colley 250 Hon. William Hatfield 252 The Johnson-Hatfield House 254 The Workman House 256 Bridge over the Monongahela 259 Old Tavern at Malden 261 William Greenfield 263 Charles Guttery 265 Billy Robinson 267 Daniel Ward 268 John W. McDowell 270 S. B. Hayes 279 George T. Hammond 281 The Rankin House 283 The Miller House 284 The "S" Bridge 286 David Bell 288 Joseph F. Mayes 291 Mrs. Sarah Beck 292 Col. Moses Shepherd 294 Mrs. Lydia Shepherd 295 John McCortney 296 Bridge over Whitewater River 308 Gen. George W. Cass 311 William Searight 313 William Hopkins 315 Daniel Steenrod 320 W. M. F. Magraw 327 "Crazy Billy" 333 German D. Hair House 353 Dr. Hugh Campbell 354 The Big Water-Trough on Laurel Hill 356

THE OLD PIKE.

The road which forms the subject of this volume, is the only highway of its kind ever wholly constructed by the government of the United States. When Congress first met after the achievement of Independence and the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the lack of good roads was much commented upon by our statesmen and citizens generally, and various schemes suggested to meet the manifest want. But, it was not until the year 1806, when Jefferson was President, that the proposition for a National Road took practical shape. The first step, as will hereinafter be seen, was the appointment of commissioners to lay out the road, with an appropriation of money to meet the consequent expense. The author of this work was born and reared on the line of the road, and has spent his whole life amid scenes connected with it. He saw it in the zenith of its glory, and with emotions of sadness witnessed its decline. It was a highway at once so grand and imposing, an artery so largely instrumental in promoting the early growth and development of our country's wonderful resources, so influential in strengthening the bonds of the American Union, and at the same time so replete with important events and interesting incidents, that the writer of these pages has long cherished a hope that some capable hand would write its history and collect and preserve its legends, and no one having come forward to perform the task, he has ventured upon it himself, with unaffected diffidence and a full knowledge of his inability to do justice to the subject.

Tradition, cheerfully acquiesced in by popular thought, attributes to Henry Clay the conception of the National Road, but this seems to be error. The Hon. Andrew Stewart, in a speech delivered in Congress, January 27th, 1829, asserted that "Mr. Gallatin was the very first man that ever suggested the plan for making the Cumberland Road." As this assertion was allowed to go unchallenged, it must be accepted as true, however strongly and strangely it conflicts with the popular belief before stated. The reader will bear in mind that the National Road and the Cumberland Road are one and the same. The road as constructed by authority of Congress, begins at the city of Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, and this is the origin of the name Cumberland Road. All the acts of Congress and of the legislatures of the States through which the road passes, and they are numerous, refer to it as the Cumberland Road. The connecting link between Cumberland and the city of Baltimore is a road much older than the Cumberland Road, constructed and owned by associations of individuals, and the two together constitute the National Road.

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