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The National Road was the nation’s first national road and was fathered by Albert Gallatin. It began in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, and was completed to Wheeling in 1818. From 1835 to 1905 it operated as a toll road under state control. Rebuilt, it is the present U.S. Route 40.
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