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The Narrows is a 1000-foot-high natural landmark cutting through Wills and Haystack Mountains that facilitated commerce, travel, and migration between Cumberland and the west. Early roads bypassed the Narrows and followed the Delaware Indian Nemacolin's path, a trail surveyed in 1753 for the Ohio Company over the steep mountain passes to the south. This later became Braddock's Road and was used by General Edward Braddock on his way to the disastrous defeat at Fort Duquesne. A Braddock lieutenant found the Narrows, and a portion of Braddock's army used it. The National Road also originally followed the mountain passes to the south, but after 1832 the federal government rerouted the highway through the Narrows.
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