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INDEX
Roads


ROADS: Names and Data (continued)—

    • Kentucky pioneer, 11, 178–181.
    • Lancaster Turnpike: charter granted, 11, 74; built, 74; subscriptions opened, 75; Witmer's description of, 75–85; tolls collected on, 79; Line Wagon Company on, 82–83; professional wagon loaders on, 82; wagoners clannish, 84; taverns on, 85–89; liquors served along, 88–89; later history of, 90–98.
    • McCullough's Path, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 29.
    • Marietta, Ohio, to Clarksburg, West Virginia (1790), 12, 45–46.
    • Massachusetts, opening early, 11, 34.
    • Maysville Pike: route of, 11, 164; Jackson's veto of bill for, 167174; see Zane's Trace.
    • Mayville (Pennsylvania), 7, 155.
    • Morgantown, West Virginia, to Wheeling (1796), 12, 72–73; see Fort Pendleton.
    • New York, opening early, 11, 36.
    • "Northwestern Road Company:" incorporated, 12, 30–33; failure of, 34.
    • Northwestern Turnpike: early history of region traversed by, 12, 14–30; creation of, 30–34; Virginia builds, 34–38; importance of, 38–42.
    • Ohio Company's: to Redstone, 3, 92–96; marked out by Cresap, 96.