Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020455469
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a detailed history of the Cumberland Road, America's first federally funded highway. It covers the planning, construction, and early use of the road, as well as the political and economic factors that played a role in its success. Of interest to historians, transportation enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the development of American infrastructure. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-08-01
Total Pages: 78
ISBN-13: 375238851X
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Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: 2022-05-17
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9789356150416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book "" Historic Highways of America; (Volume X) The Cumberland Road "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher: Tebbo
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9781486491759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Historic Highways of America (Vol. 10) - The Cumberland Road. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Archer Butler Hulbert, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Historic Highways of America (Vol. 10) - The Cumberland Road in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Historic Highways of America (Vol. 10) - The Cumberland Road: Look inside the book: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three discreet and disinterested citizens of the United States, to lay out a road from Cumberland, or a point on the northern bank of the river Potomac, in the state of Maryland, between Cumberland and the place where the main road leading from Gwynn's to Winchester, in Virginia, crossesPg 21 the river, to the state of Ohio; whose duty it shall be, as soon as may be, after their appointment, to repair to Cumberland aforesaid, and view the ground, from the points on the river Potomac hereinbefore designated to the river Ohio; and to lay out in such direction as they shall judge, under all circumstances the most proper, a road from thence to the river Ohio, to strike the same at the most convenient place, between a point on its eastern bank, opposite to the northern boundary of Steubenville, in said state of Ohio, and the mouth of Grave Creek, which empties into the said river a little below Wheeling, in Virginia. ..."The surveyor having, under his instructions, laid down a plat of his work, showing the meanders of the Potomac and Ohio rivers, within the limits prescribed for the commissioners, as also the road between those rivers, which is commonly traveled from Cumberland to Charleston, in part called Braddock's road; and the same being produced to the commissioners, whereby straight lines and their true courses were shown between the extreme points on each river, and the boundaries which limit the powers of the commissioners being thereby ascertained, serving as a basis whereon to proceed in the examination of the grounds and face of the country; the commissioners thus prepared commenced the business of exploring; and in this it was considered that a faithful discharge of the discretionary powers vested by the law made it necessaryPg 29 to view the whole to be able to judge of a preference due to any part of the grounds, which imposed a task of examining a space comprehending upwards of two thousand square miles; a task rendered still more incumbent by the solicitude and importunities of the inhabitants of every part of the district, who severally conceived their grounds entitled to a preference.