Roney's Point

The Old Stone Tavern on the National Road

This 1963 WVA Historic Commission marker begins in the middle of the story.

The Jug and the Bridge

This stone jug stands in an obscure park on the east side of Frederick, Maryland. It was originally an ornamental monument on the stone turnpike bridge over the Monocacy River.

The Funkstown Turnpike Bridge

This stone arch bridge across Antietam Creek was built in 1823, by James Lloyd, as part of the construction of the National Pike, an eastern feeder of the National Road. Suitably modified in 1931, it became part of US Route 40. Today this is Alt. 40.

The Grave of Little Orphant Annie

  Greenfield, Indiana

Foot Print Rock

New Paris, Ohio

A piece of glaciated gneiss with a human footprint in it,size 9.

Mount Prospect

 On US 40 in Hagerstown

This house was built by Nathaniel Rochester in 1789. Rochester lived here until 1810 when he migrated to the Genesee valley and founded the city that bears his name.

The Van Buren Elm

On Main Street in Plainfield, Indiana, in front of the Friends Meetinghouse, we find a boulder with a DAR plaque marking the Van Buren Elm.

The Dixie Motel

Sleep on the Mason-Dixon Line

This six-room 50's era motel and gas station sits on Rt. 40 at the summit of Winding Ridge in Addison Township, Pennsylvania.

F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald

 What are F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald doing in Rockville?

The Braddock Boulder

At the National Cathedral

This boulder, sitting on the front lawn of the National Cathedral on Wisconsin Avenue, may be the oldest historical marker in the Washington, DC, area commemorating a Colonial event. 

Dowden's Ordinary -- The Daughters' Mistake

In 1915, Robert Bruce, touring manager of AAA, drove along a dirt road marked with red, white and blue "National Old Trails Road" markers near Clarksburg, Maryland. He observed a large boulder recently "erected by Daughters of the American Revolution to mark the site of Dowden's Ordinary the second camp of Braddock in Maryland." In his small book with a long name, he  remarked that "A portion of this old building is still standing, much dilapidated, after a hundred and sixty years."



The National Road : most historic thoroughfare in the United States, and eastern division of the National Old Trails ocean-to-ocean highway, Baltimore and Washington to Frederick, Hagerstown, Cumberland and Frostburg, Maryland, Uniontown, Brownsville and Washington, Pennsylvania, and Wheeling, West Virginia by Robert Bruce.