Breaking the Appalachian Barrier

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  • Breaking the Appalachian Barrier Book Detail

  • Author : John Hrastar
  • Release Date : 2018-03-12
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 264
  • ISBN 13 : 1476670447
  • File Size : 2,2 MB
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Breaking the Appalachian Barrier by John Hrastar PDF Summary

Book Description: In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier between the British colonies in the east and French territory in the west, passable only on foot or horseback. It took more than a century to break the mountain barrier and open the west to settlement. In 1751 a private Virginia company pioneered a road from Maryland to Ohio, challenging the French and Indians for the Ohio country. Several wars stalled the road, which did not start in earnest until after Ohio became a state in 1803. The stone-paved Cumberland Road--from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia--was complete by 1818 and over the next 30 years was traversed by Conestoga wagons and stagecoaches. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad--the first general purpose railroad in the world--started in Baltimore in the 1820s and reached Wheeling by 1852, uniting east and west.

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