The Old Pike A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon

The foregoing lines were written by one who mourned the departing glories of the old road. When they were written the steam car had taken the place of the four-horse coach, and...

_West of Wheeling--Old Stage Lines Beyond the Ohio River--William Neil--Gen. N. P. Flamage--Stage Stations--Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers--Rev. Doctor Cinnabar and "Sunset" Cox...

_The Arrest, Trial, Conviction and Sentence of Dr. John F. Braddee, the Notorious Mail Robber--George Plitt makes the Information--Bill Corman turns on his Chief--Braddee gives...

_Lieut. Mansfield superseded by Capt. Delafield--The Turning of Wills Mountain--Contractors not Properly Instructed--Capt. Delafield suggests a Change of Plan, and enforces his...

_Old Wagoners continued--An Exciting Incident of the Political Campaign of 1840--All about a Petticoat--Neri Smith, Isaac Stuck, John Short, William Orr, Ashael Willison--A Wago...

_The first Mail Coaches--The stage yard at Uniontown--Employees therein--Mr. Stockton goes back on John Tyler--Names of Coaches--Henry Clay and the drivers--Anecdote of Clay, an...

_Stage Drivers, Stage Lines and Stage Coaches--The Postilion--Changing Horses--He comes, the Herald of a Noisy World--Pioneer Proprietors--Peter Burdine and his Little Rhyme--An...

_Dumb Ike--Reminiscences of Uniontown--Isaac Johnson--Squire Hagan--A Musician Astride of a Hog--Anecdote of Judges Black and Williams--Morgan Miller, an Old Tavern Keeper--Phil...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers, continued--Searights to Brownsville--Able Colley's, Johnson's, known later as Hatfield's--William Hatfield, his Good Name and Melancholy Death--...

_Old Tavern and Tavern Keepers continued--Washington--Washington and Jefferson College--The Female Seminary--James Wilson, first Tavern Keeper in Washington--The two Dodds--Majo...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Uniontown--The Town as it Appeared to Gen. Douglass in 1784--Its Subsequent Growth and Improvement--The First Tavern--Other Early Tave...

_On with the work--Wooden Bridges proposed for the new location up Wills Creek and Braddock's Run--The War Department holds that Wooden Superstructures would be a Substantial Co...

_Stages and Stage Drivers continued--Gen. Taylor approaching Cumberland--Early Coaches--The first Troy Coach on the Road--Mr. Reeside and Gen. Jackson--John Buck--Accidents--Kan...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--West Alexander to Wheeling--A Modern Gretna Green--Dr. McCluskey--Crossing Another State Line--Abram Carr--The Widow Beck, with whom A...

_The Life of the Road Threatened by the Spectre of a Constitutional Cavil--President Monroe Vetoes a Bill for its Preservation and Repair--General Jackson has Misgivings--Hon. A...

_Distinguished Stage Proprietors, Lucius W. Stockton, James Reeside, Dr. Howard Kennedy, William H. Stelle--Old Stage Agents, Charley Rettig, John Risley, William Biddle, James...

_Superintendents under National Control--Gen. Gratiot, Captains Delafield, McKee, Bliss, Hartzell, Williams, Colquit and Cass, and Lieuts. Mansfield, Vance and Pickell--The Old...

_Stages and Stage Drivers continued--Character of Drivers Defended--Styles of Driving--Classification of Drivers--Samuel Luman, old mail driver--His thrilling encounter with Rob...

_Special Message of President Jefferson--Communicating to Congress the First Report of the Commissioners--They View the Whole Ground--Solicitude of the Inhabitants--Points Consi...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Big Crossings to Mt. Washington--Old Shellbark, Jacob Probasco, Jockey Hollow, Old Tom Brown, Mt. Augusta, Marlow's, the Three Cabins,...

_Life on the Road--Origin of the Phrase Pike Boys--Slaves Driven Like Horses--Race Distinction at the Old Taverns--Old Wagoners--Regulars and Sharpshooters--Line Teams--John Sni...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Fort Necessity, Washington's First Battle Field, Monroe Springs, Reception to President Monroe, Gate Bob McDowell, Braddock's Run and...

_Inception of the Road--Author's Motive in Writing its History--No History of the Appian Way--A Popular Error Corrected--Henry Clay, Andrew Stewart, T. M. T. McKennan, Gen. Bees...

_Gen. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, transmits a Report--More about the Wooden Bridges for the New Location near Cumberland--The War department thinks they will do--John Hoye sto...

_Old Wagoners continued--The Harness they Used--John Morrow a maker of Harness--Capt. Elias Gilmore encounters a Man Eater--Perry Gaddis, William G. Patterson, Alfred Bailes, th...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Washington to West Alexander--Rankintown--John Rankin--Andrew McDonald--Freaks of an Old Wagon-maker--Robert Smith--John Coulson--Mill...

_Old Wagoners continued--John Deets--His story told by himself--David Church--John Snider loads up with Butter--Billy Ashton, John Bradfield, Frank Bradfield--An Escapade--Willi...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Beallsville to Washington--Hillsboro--The Old Hill House--Samuel Youman, next to Old Mount the biggest man of the Road--George Ringlan...

_Plan of Repairs--The Macadam System adopted--Mr. Stockton offers his services--Capt. Delafield made Superintendent--The Road in a bad condition--Permission asked to deviate fro...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Brownsville to Beallsville--West Brownsville, the Birthplace of James G. Blaine--Indian Hill, later known as Krepps' Knob--Indian Pete...

_Two Noted Old Tavern Keepers--Thomas Endsley and William Sheets--The Latter the Driver of the First Mail Coach Out from Cumberland--A Wedding Party Surprised, and a Marriage Pr...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Winding Ridge to the Big Crossings--The State Line--How it is Noted--The Old Stone Tavern on Winding Ridge, John Welsh, Major Paul, Th...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Uniontown to Searights--Anecdote of John Slack--Slack at Night and Tight in the Morning--Old Roads--Parting Tribute to the Old Taverns...

died the proprietor of the house, and was succeeded by his son Jonathan. The house was a large brick building, on the south side of the road. Stages stopped and exchanged teams...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Cumberland to Little Crossings--The City of Cumberland--Everstine's--The Six Mile House and Bridge--Clary's--Tragedy in Frostburg--Tho...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Little Crossings to Winding Ridge--Grantsville--The Old Shultz, Steiner and Fuller Houses--The Veteran, David Mahaney--Thomas Thistle,...

_Origin of the Fund for Making the Road.--Acts for the Admission of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri--Report of a Committee of Congress as to the Manner of Applying the Ohio...

_Pennsylvania Grants Permission to Make the Road Through Her Territory--Uniontown Restored, Gist Left Out, and Washington, Pennsylvania, Made a Point--Simon Snyder, Speaker of t...

1. Act of March 29, 1806, authorizes the President to appoint a commission of three citizens to lay out a road four rods in width "from Cumberland or a point on the northern ban...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers from Baltimore to Boonsboro--Pen Picture of an Old Tavern by James G. Blaine--The Maypole--The Hand in Hand--Earlocker's--Pine Orchard--The Brown...

_State Authority prevails--The Road surrendered by Congress--The erection of Toll Gates authorized--Commissioners appointed by the States to receive the Road--They wrangle over...

_The Iron Bridge over Dunlap's Creek at Brownsville--Interesting facts relating to its projection and construction--The first step--Several respectable Gentlemen of Brownsville...

_Old Wagoners continued--Harrison Wiggins, Morris Mauler, James Mauler, John Marker, John Bradley, Robert Carter, R. D. Kerfoot, Jacob F. Longanecker, Ellis B. Woodward--Broad a...

The first contracts in sections for the first ten miles of the road west of Cumberland were signed April 16th and May 8th, 1811, and were finished in the fall of 1812. The next...

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled_, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby au...

1st. That the 5 per cent. reserved by the act of 30th April, 1802, on the net moneys received for public lands in the State of Ohio, sold since 1st July, 1802, has amounted to t...

_Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued--Boonsboro to Cumberland--Funkstown, Antietam, Hagerstown, Dirty Spigot, Shady Bower, Clear Spring, North Mountain, Indian Spring, Hanc...

_Speech of Hon. T. M. T. McKennan, delivered in Congress, June 6, 1832--The Road a Monument of National Wealth and Greatness--A Bond of Union--Business of the Road--Five Thousan...

Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania Relating to the Cumberland Road--Unexpended Balances in Indiana--Accounts of Two Old Commissioners--Rates of Toll--Letters of Albert Gallatin,...

PAGES Inception of the Road--Author's Motive in Writing its History--No History of the Appian Way--A Popular Error Corrected--Henry Clay, Andrew Stewart, T. M. T. McKennan, Gene...

On with the Work--Wooden Bridges Proposed for the New Location up Wills Creek and Braddock's Run--The War Department holds that Wooden Superstructures would be a Substantial Com...

The Life of the Road Threatened by the Spectre of a Constitutional Cavil--President Monroe Vetoes a Bill for its Preservation and Repair--General Jackson has Misgivings--Hon. An...

Pennsylvania grants Permission to make the Road through her Territory--Uniontown Restored, Gist left Out, and Washington, Pennsylvania, made a Point--Heights of Mountains and Hi...

Old Wagoners continued--An Exciting Incident of the Political Campaign of 1840--All about a Petticoat--A Trip to Tennessee--Origin of the Toby Cigar--The Rubber--The Windup and...