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Breaking the Appalachian Barrier
- Maryland as the Gateway to Ohio and the West, 1750-1850
Engelsk Paperback
Breaking the Appalachian Barrier
- Maryland as the Gateway to Ohio and the West, 1750-1850
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
263
ISBN-13:
9781476670447
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1476670447
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 mar 2018
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
178mm
Højde:
254mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
12 mar 2018
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