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Show WAS LONG FAMOUS HIGHWAY Cumberland Pike a Well-Traveled Road in the Early Days of the Country. When the immigrants traversed the Santa Fe trail, when they went overland over-land to the Golden Gate, when they traversed the prairies in every direction, direc-tion, they did not travel In trek carts, says Dan Beard in Boys' Life. They traveled in what were known as prairie prai-rie schooners, and the prairie schooner was a direct descendant of the cones-toga, cones-toga, and the conestogn wagon was the freight wagon that carried all the freight over the old Cumberland road, or the Old Pike, as It was sometimes ca"ed. This was the first good road from Wheeling, W. Va., to Fort Cumberlandnow Cum-berlandnow Cumberland, Md., a pretty pret-ty little town delightfully situated on a branch of the Potomac river. There were two routes to the Ohio valley, one over the famous Boone trail to Cumberland Gap blazed , on the trees in 1775. The other route was over the Bradclock road to the Youghiougheuy, and It was in the general direction of this road that the Cumberland pike was built, a splendid road of stone covered with gravel that passed over great arched bridges thrown across the ravines and water conrsps Thp Cumberland road was laid out by an Indian guide and in 1S48 it was acknowledged ac-knowledged to be the greatest traveled highway In America. |