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The National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road) [1] was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government.Built between 1811 and 1837, the 620-mile (1,000 km) road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was a main transport path to the West for thousands of settlers.
The farthest western terminus for the National Road was the Old State House in Vandalia, Illinois. [35] The National Road was absorbed into the National Old Trails Ocean-to-Ocean highway, a route from New York, New York, to Los Angeles, California in the early 20th century. The National Road became US 40 in the original 1925 plan for U.S. Routes.
Old National Pike or Old National Road, and sometimes Old Cumberland Road, Old Route 40, Old U.S. 40 are terms both colloquially and officially applied to bypassed parts of the United States' first federally funded highway (1811), the National Pike—which are essentially the parts of U.S. Route 40 (1920s) west of Baltimore and east of Missouri.
The Cumberland Road, which subsequently became part of the National Road and later U.S. Route 40, roughly parallel Braddock's Road between Cumberland, Maryland, and Chestnut Ridge near Uniontown. In August 1908 and again during June and July 1909, John Kennedy Lacock , a Harvard professor originally from Amity , in Washington County ...
In 1926, the United States Numbered Highway System was established, creating the first national road numbering system for cross-country travel. The roads were funded and maintained by U.S. states, and there were few national standards for road design. United States Numbered Highways ranged from two-lane country roads to multi-lane freeways.
Albany Post Road, in use by 1642, from Bowling Green (New York City) to Albany, called "Broadway" for long stretches Bozeman Trail from Virginia City, Montana , to central Wyoming California Road established 1849, from Fort Smith, Arkansas , to California
Another “royal road” connecting Spain’s former colonies, this National Historic Trail cuts through southern Texas on its way to Mexico City, featuring well-preserved missions, fortified ...
The Searights Tollhouse of the National Road is a historic toll house on United States Route 40, the former route of the historic National Road, north of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Built in 1835, it is one of two surviving tollhouses (out of six) built by the state of Pennsylvania to collect tolls along the portion of the road that passed through ...