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Roads
INDEX
135
roads gave rise to, 147–148; turnpike leading from Albany, New York, 148; early companies sacrifice grade to greed, 149.
- Names and Data:
- Alexandria (Virginia): to Cumberland, Maryland, taverns on (1755), 4, 76; to Winchester, taverns on (1755), 77; to Fort Frederick, 5, 82; to Marietta, Ohio, 12, 66–67.
- Baltimore, to Washington (1796) described, 11, 116–117.
- Bird's, Colonel, 6, 180–181.
- Boone's, see Wilderness.
- Braddock's: early importance of, 3, 206; map of (1759), 4, 69; Braddock orders Morris to cut, 75; beginning the building of, 98–99; takes new route around Wills Mountain, 99; follows Indian trail, 109–110; delays in building, 109–116; view of, near Frostburg, Maryland, 148; route described by Jared Sparks, 168–172; Middleton's map of (1847), 174; T. C. Atkinson describes route of, 175–190; errors concerning route east of Cumberland, 179; route about Wills Mountain, 183–184; route through Alleghenies, 183–190; route between Laurel Hill and Braddock's Fields, 187–190; later history of, 191–213; parallel with Cumberland
