Show i- i WAS LONG LONc FAMOUS HIGHWAY HIGHWAY 5 5 Cumberland Cumberland Pike a 5 a Well Traveled re Ro Road d In the Early Days of f fIt f ff It f c S the the Country S When When the r-the h immigrants traversed the 5 Santa SantaFe Fe Fe Vb ri they went overland overland overland over over- land to to the Golden Uie Golden Gate when the they theyS S traversed travers th the pr prairies In every every direction direction tion they they lid did ld n in tr trek k carts fJ says Dan Dan- Beard in n Boys' Boys Life They traveled din In what hat were vere were known as prairie pral S i rie ne scho schooners ners and th the prairie schooner schooner L was a direct descendant of the conestoga conestoga cones- cones to toga a and the conestoga wagon was the S 'S freight wagon that carried all the r S freight over o the old Cumberland road or the tile Old Oid Pike Pikes as It was sometimes S This was the first good road i 1 from Wheeling W. W Va to Fort Cumberland Cum Cum- berland now berland rland-no rland now Cumberland Md a pretty pretty pret pret- ty little town to delightfully situated on a branch of f the Potomac omac river There were two routes t to the Ohio valley one over the famous Boone trail to S. Cumberland Gap blazed on the trees v In Iii 1775 The other route was over the theS the'S S 'S Braddock road road to the l- l o end nd It was wa in th general direction of oft t- t tills this his road that the Cumberland pike pikeS pike'S S 'S was built a splendid road of stone covered with gravel that passed passe over S. S great great arched bridges tl thrown rown across S the ravines and water Bourses The TheS S md dad idad oad was laid out by an Indian guide In Jt was It-was as acknowledged acknowledged act ac ac- t 5 to be fie the traveled S. S highway In America S |