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American frontier
- In American frontier: Early roads
In the Ohio Enabling Act of 1802, a fund from the sale of public lands was set aside for road construction. In 1811 the federal government began work on a section of hard-surfaced (macadamized) road reaching from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) on the…
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