Talk:National Road

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  • 1818 Wheeling
  • 1839 Vandalia [1]

What railroad was finished in 1839? Nothing in the area! This 1848 map shows only proposed stuff. --SPUI (talk) 21:34, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Info from PRR Chronology

  • 11-20-1811 work began
  • 8-1-1818? completed Cumberland-Wheeling
  • 5-15-1820 Congress authorized extension to St. Louis
  • 5-4-1822 President Monroe vetoed bill for tolls
  • 1824 Boonesborough Turnpike opened Boonesboro-Hagerstown as last link Baltimore-Cumberland
  • 3-3-1825 Congress authorized extension to St. Louis (again?! maybe to Jefferson City?)
  • 5-3-1825 Congress altered route between Zanesville and Jefferson City to go via Columbus, Richmond, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Vandalia
  • 1-18-1827 surveyor reported about Columbus-Indianapolis, new route Zanesville-Newark-Columbus and alternate via Springfield-Dayton-Eaton-Richmond
  • 2-1827 report on extension submitted to War Department
  • 4-25-1827 resurvey ordered Indianapolis-St. Louis
  • 1827 completed through Centerville, IN and Wayne County, IN
  • 2-1-1828 surveyed west of Indianapolis via Terre Haute and Vandalia, fixed to Terre Haute
  • 1-20-1829 surveyed Terre Haute-Vandalia-St. Louis, fixed to Vandalia
  • 1829 Congress appropriate money for both ways from Indianapolis
  • 5-31-1830 President Jackson vetoed federal money towards Washington Turnpike, Washington-Frederick
  • 3-9-1832 Senate passed bill to extend through OH-IN-IL
  • 1833 reached Columbus
  • 4-1-1835 eastern portion transferred to MD, PA and VA, became state or county maintained toll road
  • 3-4-1836 Ohio Board of Public Works replaced Canal Commissioners, takes over National Road maintenance
  • 5-25-1838 last Congressional appropriation
  • 1840 Congress voted against paying to finish, Henry Clay cast deciding vote
  • 11-5-1842 B&O opened to Cumberland, portage over National Road to Brownsville on Mon River is faster than Main Line of Public Works
  • 1845 another appropriation vetoed by President Polk
  • 4-7-1846 House defeats completion bill
  • 6-1848 poorly maintained, some stages and express wagons removed
  • 11-10-1849 used to transport locomotive for Columbus and Xenia Railroad
  • ca 1850 reached Vandalia
  • 5-24-1854 leased to private operator Bridgeport-Springfield, OH, reverted to state 1859

--SPUI (talk) 05:07, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Distances

  • Maryland 35
  • Pennsylvania 90
  • West Virginia 15.7
  • Ohio 227.87
  • Indiana 156
  • Illinois ~95

total ~620 --SPUI (talk) 08:50, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] State highway numbers