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The National Road

Bowling Green, Maryland
· (Called The Cumberland Road)
Transportation
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The National Road was the first of the internal improvements undertaken by the U.S. Government. Surveys were authorized in 1806 over the route of "Braddock’s Road," which followed "Nemacolin’s Path," an Indian trail, over which George Washington traveled in 1754 to Fort LeBoeuf.
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