, wheeling will start to grow because this is what some people would refer to as a jumping off point. Ohio, indiana and so on. That is why the National Road will end up this way. As more and more people come into the area, then the area will move up and down the river. It will start to expand. The center of it is where we are right now. As we move through the 19th century it extends to the south, grows,north, and as it buildings were made at a brick. By the midcentury there will be a couple of holdings made out of stone. One of the things that reflects is the community is becoming wealthier. The National Road is on the ohio river. Why here cap though several reasons. This is a floodplain. It has an island adjacent, and as a consequence, you have a good place for river transport. Enough that it has connections to people back in washington. The future aligned it will go to north to uniontown because the in thery of the treasury jefferson administration, guess where he led to . Uniontown. Then it will continue on to washington, because washington is also an established town. The National Road when it comes ohio waswn 1818, already a state, have been a state for 15 years. Indiana was a state at this time. It facilitates the movement of goods to the west. Ohio would become the fourthlargest state in the union. Well, when people move west, they need houses to live in. If you look at all of the structures on the ohio river to the mississippi, it has been estimated over 50 of all of the buildings were put together with nails made here. You put them on the national. Oad and send them westward we have records in the 1840s of wagon trains heading west with nails that might have 20 or 30 wagon and a line going west. In 18301890, it will produce 50 million case of males. This is nail city. The suspension bridge was put up in 1849, the longest suspension bridge in the world. Marvel. Technological it still brings in science come interestedand people in engineering because of the way it was made. It was a bridge put in to accommodate steam. This dates the Brooklyn Bridge bridge by about 50 years. It is like a funnel. It is a small part of the funnel. The funnel is really a bridge. If you want to get across the river, and you come in where you can cross the bridge and go west from there. One of the things that makes a city like wheeling grow is transportation developments, whether it is the steamboat, National Road, the bridge and later the railroad. All of those things improved transportation. Because of the transportation, the cost began to climb. Because because they declined, the ability to buy goods increases. You have of furthering of the entrepreneurial spirit. You cannot understand wheeling unless you understand the role for National Road played. This community was not would not have developed in the fashion it did if the road had not come here. I have spent i dont know how many days traveling that National Road from wheeling to cumberland. When i go visit family in northern genia, i very seldom take the interstate. It is not that interesting. To go on that National Road, and having seen photographs of it from the 19th century. If you are as interest in history as i am, why would you not travel that road . There are not many as historic roads as that one. At the start of the civil war virginia succeeded from the United States to join the confederacy. In the Wheeling Convention 1861 delegates from the western part West Virginiaad independence hall. The delegates voted to secede establish westnd virginia, loyal to the union. Of next, we visit West Virginia independence hall. We are in the federal in thet courts room United States customhouse of wheeling, virginia in 1869 that is now known as West Virginia independence hall. This is the birthplace of the great state of West Virginia during the american civil war. It will be the place conventions will be held that will form a new government. A government loyal to the United States and union, and this new thernment will then create new state of West Virginia. Our nation was in the midof the terrible civil war. Those in eastern virginia predominantly were supportive of the confederacy. Went virginia when vendor virginia takes her last vote 1860 one, the majority of delegates will vote to secede from the United States and join the southern confederacy. Those in northwestern virginia who were overwhelmingly against secession they will come to the side of the mountains. To decide what western virginia would do. They decided they needed a place or more formal convention and wheeling would be the best place to have that convention. It would be safe. It is stuck in the land between the great and powerful union. There was safety there. It provided a place for them to ando formulate a plan embarq upon one of the most incredible experiences in the American History. Secessionuccessful movement in American History as well. There were a lot of issues that brought this to ahead. Had issues to do with taxation