https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj By- Zaid and Jay en-us 2016-09-16 14:20:08 UTC 2026-01-06 10:32:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124361018 The National Road and later US Route 40), (also known variously in older historical mentions as the Cumberland Road, the Cumberland Turnpike, the Cumberland-Brownsille Turnpike (or Road or Pike)]]> 2016-09-16 14:30:26 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124361018 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124731980 Even in the American Civil War, the Virginia and Monitor were not the first ironclads.  To support Union naval operations on the rivers in the western theater, ironclad river gunboats (City Class gunboats) had been built, launched, and deployed by January 1862.  These gunboats played an important role in the battles for Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February of 1862.]]> 2016-09-19 13:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124731980 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124732591 2016-09-19 13:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124732591 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124732882 2016-09-19 13:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124732882 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124735035 2016-09-19 13:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124735035 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124737183 Construction of the "Cumberland Road" (which later became part of the longer "National Road") was authorized on March 29, 1806, by third President Thomas Jefferson. The new "Cumberland Road" would replace the wagon and foot paths of the "Braddock Road" for travel between the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, following roughly the same alignment until just east of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. From there, where the "Braddock Road" turned north towards Pittsburgh, the new "National Road"/"Cumberland Road" would continue west to Wheeling, West Virginia (then part of Virginia), also on the Ohio River.]]> 2016-09-19 13:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124737183 https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124737555 The Braddock Road had been opened by the Ohio Company in 1751 between Fort Cumberland, the limit of navigation on the upper Potomac River, and the French military station at Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River, (at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers), an important trading and military point where the city of Pittsburgh now stands.]]> 2016-09-19 13:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124737555 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124737966 2016-09-19 13:48:32 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124737966 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124739186 2016-09-19 13:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124739186 https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124739935 Construction of the "Cumberland Road" (which later became part of the longer "National Road") was authorized on March 29, 1806, by third President Thomas Jefferson.]]> 2016-09-19 13:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124739935 https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124742532 The contract for the construction of the first section was awarded to Henry McKinley on May 8, 1811,[6] and construction began later that year, with the road reaching Wheeling on August 1, 1818. For more than 100 years, a simple granite stone was the only marker of the Road's beginning in Cumberland, Maryland.]]> 2016-09-19 13:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124742532 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124743050 2016-09-19 13:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124743050 https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124743356 2016-09-19 13:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124743356 phillipsjay https://padlet.com/phillipsjay/9w8zbwm2htfj/wish/124744434

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