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Breaking the Appalachian Barrier

Maryland as the Gateway to Ohio and the West, 1750-1850

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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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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletevi
List of Maps deleteviii
Preface
Introduction
One Setting the Stage
Twö Maryland to 1750
Three Competition for the Ohio Country
Four The War Years
Five The Changing West
Six The Waterway West
Seven Maryland as the Gateway to Ohio
Eight The Iron Link Between Maryland and Ohio
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
26. Februar 2018
Sprache
englisch
Untertitel
Maryland as the Gateway to Ohio and the West, 1750-1850. Sprache: Englisch.
Seitenanzahl
264
Autor/Autorin
John Hrastar
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
503 g
Größe (L/B/H)
254/178/14 mm
ISBN
9781476670447

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John Hrastar

John Hrastar had a 50-year career in the aerospace industry, most of it with NASA. He now researches and writes on history. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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