With our Exhibit Program we hope to give people a greater understanding of American History were looking to give a difference perspective on not only the decade of the 1960s, but the entire stroke of American History. And join American History tv marking the 150th anniversary. Fush push. The first project funded by the federal government for world production was the National Road that extended from cumberland maryland to wheeling, virginia. And one of the reasons for that was that high you become a state in 1803. The countries moving west and we needed to find a way of tieing these new Western Areas in with the capitol. The easiest way of doing that was to put in a road. So that road will eventually extend from baltimore then westward into cumberland, Maryland Union town, washington p. A. A thnd in 818, it comes here to wheeler. And when it comes here to wheeling, that will give this community which, about that time is about 50 years old. The real spurt that it needs for growth. And over the next 2025 years, the population of wheeling will almost triple. Wheeling starts as an out post on the frontier