Transcriber’s Note
There were a number of spelling and typographical errors in the originaltext. Obvious printer's errors have been corrected silently. Variant andidiosyncratic spellings have been retained, especially for place names.at the end of this text. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text,and are linked for the reader’s convenience.
THE OLD PIKE.
A HISTORY OF
THE NATIONAL ROAD,
WITH
INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, AND ANECDOTES
THEREON.
ILLUSTRATED.
BY
THOMAS B. SEARIGHT.
UNIONTOWN, PA:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1894.
Copyright, 1894, by T. B. Searight.
PRESSES OF
M. CULLATON & CO.,
RICHMOND, IND.
LETTER FROM JAMES G. BLAINE.
| Stanwood, Bar Harbor, Maine. September 8th, 1892. | } |
Hon. T. B. Searight,
Uniontown, Pa.
My Dear Friend:—
I have received the sketches of the “Old Pike” regularly and have asregularly read them, some of them more than once, especially where youcome near the Monongahela on either side of it, and thus strike the landof my birth and boyhood. I could trace you all the way to Washington, atMalden, at Centreville, at Billy Greenfield’s in Beallsville, atHillsboro (Billy Robinson was a familiar name), at Dutch CharleyMiller’s, at Ward’s, at Pancake, and so on—familiar names, foreverendeared to my memory. I cherish the desire of riding over the “OldPike” with you, but I am afraid we shall contemplate it as a schemenever to be realized.
Very sincerely,
Your friend,
JAMES G. BLAINE.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | PAGES |
| Inception of the Road—Author’s Motive in Writing itsHistory—No History of the Appian Way—A Popular ErrorCorrected—Henry Clay, Andrew Stewart, T. M. T.McKennan, General Beeson, Lewis Steenrod and DanielSturgeon—Their Services in Behalf of the Road, etc.,etc. | 13-19 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Origin of the Fund for Making the Road—Acts for theAdmission of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri,etc., etc. | 20-24 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
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