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<p>This companion volume to The National Road is a traveler's guide to the nation's first federally funded highway. Combining a wealth of historical and geographical information, A Guide to the National Road takes readers on a seven-hundred-mile journey through America's heartland, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Mississippi River.</p> <p>Although the National Road as legislated by Congress in 1808 officially began in Cumberland, Maryland, a crucial stretch of highway linking that town with the port of Baltimore was hastily added as construction on the Road began. A Guide to the National Road therefore begins the journey in downtown Baltimore — just a few blocks north of what is now Oriole Park at Camden Yards — and follows the Road westward as it parallels old U.S. 40 and the newer, faster — but far less interesting — Interstates 70 and 68.</p> <p>With chapter-length vignettes on each of the road's seven segments, the Guide traces the road through such landmark Maryland towns as New Market, in which every building is on the National Historic Register, and Frederick, where, legend has it, Barbara Fritchie issued her famous challenge to Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. After fo

Author

Karl Raitz; project director and director of photography, George F. Thompson; photography by Charles Walters ... [et al.]; cartography by Gyula Pauer

Publisher

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801851568

Subjects

Business, Social Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14