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Show WAS LONG FAMOUS HIGHWAY Cumberlsnd Plks s Wsll-Trsveled M Road in the Esrly Dsys of M ths Country. fl When the immigrants traversed the M Satits I i' trail, when they went over- H .in. I to the (ioldeu (isle, when they M traversed the prairies In every direc- H lion, they did not travel in trek carts. M suya Dnn Heard in (toys' Life. They M traveled in what were known as pral- M rie schooners, and the prairie schooner M was a direct descendant of the rones M toss, ami the conestoga wagon whs ths M freight wagon Hint carried oil the M freight over the old Cumberland rosil, H or the Old Pike, as it nun sometime M ca'lud. This was the Drat good rond M from Wheeling. W. Va.. to Kurt Cum- H herlnnd now Cumberland. Mil., a pret- M tv little town delightfully sltuatexl on a H brunch of the Potomac river. There t were two routes to the llhlo valley. M one over the famous Boom trull to M Cumberland (lap blazed on the trees M In 177o. The other route was over His M P.rnddi.ck road lo the Youghiougheny, M nnd It was in lis general direction of M this rond Hint the Cumberland piks M was built, a splendid road of stone M covered with gravel that passed over M great arched bridges I brown across M the ravines and water courses. The M Cumberland road was laid out by tin M Indian guide lllld In IM4H it was m- M knowledged lo be the greatest (raveled M highway in America. M |