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Americans have long been an adventurous people who used many forms of travel, from feet, horses, wagons, stagecoaches, canals, railroads, bicycles, automobiles, trucks and buses, to perpetually change their plans and abodes. Centuries ago, George Washington envisioned a highway joining east and west, and in 1806 Thomas Jefferson authorized an act for a road from Cumberland in Maryland to Ohio. The next generation built that United States Road as a thirty-foot-wide crushed-stone thoroughfare that spanned rivers, crossed mountains, and opened America’s western frontier to the Mississippi. Merchants, traders, and families from around the world traveled this route to claim land, expand markets, and begin new lives.
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Cumberland, Maryland · United States
