Showing posts with label Route 40. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Route 40. Show all posts

Friday, December 20, 2013

Roney's Point

The Old Stone Tavern on the National Road

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

Friday, June 1, 2012

Saturday, April 14, 2012

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.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

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.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Saturday, April 9, 2011

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.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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.

Friday, March 18, 2011

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.