The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon — John Shaqi
The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonSearight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
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The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon
Searight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield)
Cumberland Road; Pennsylvania -- Biography
Feet. 10ths.
Summit of Wills mountain 581 3
Western foot of same 304 4
Summit of Savage mountain 2022 24
Savage river 1741 6
Summit Little Savage mountain 1900 4
Branch Pine Run, first Western water 1699 9
Summit of Red Hill (after called Shades of Death) 1914 3
Summit Little Meadow mountain 2026 16
Little Youghiogheny river 1322 6
East Fork of Shade Run 1558 92
Summit of Negro mountain, highest point 2328 12
Middle branch of White's creek, at the west foot of Negro
mountain 1360 5
White's creek 1195 5
Big Youghiogheny river 645 5
Summit of a ridge between Youghiogheny river and Beaver
waters 1514 5
Beaver Run 1123 8
Summit of Laurel Hill 1550 16
Court House in Uniontown 274 65
A point ten feet above the surface of low water in the
Monongahela river, at the mouth of Dunlap's creek 119 26
The law requiring the commissioners to report those parts of the route
as are laid on the old road, as well as those on new grounds, and to
state those parts which require the most immediate attention and
amelioration, the probable expense of making the same passable in the
most difficult parts, and through the whole distance, they have to state
that, from the crooked and hilly course of the road now traveled, the
new route could not be made to occupy any part of it (except an
intersection on Wills mountain, another at Jesse Tomlinson's, and a
third near Big Youghiogheny, embracing not a mile of distance in the
whole) without unnecessary sacrifices of distances and expense.
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