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A Guide to the National Road
Language: en
Pages: 426
Authors: Karl B. Raitz
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: JHU Press

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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 geographic
The National Road
Language: en
Pages: 524
Authors: Karl B. Raitz
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: JHU Press

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From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for th
Traveling the National Road
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Merritt Ierley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Overlook Books

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"The life story of America's first highway -- born as an Indian footpath, known over the years as the National Road and the National Pike, and surviving as U.S.
The National Road
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Tom Zoellner
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-30 - Publisher: Catapult

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This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite ou
The National Road
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Olive Woolley Burt
Categories: Cumberland Road
Type: BOOK - Published: 1968 - Publisher:

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Chronicles the history of U.S. highway 40 from its early beginnings as a pioneer trail to its present status as a major link between the East and West coasts.