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The federal government for road production was the National Road that extended from cumberland, maryland, to wheeling, virginia. And one of the reasons for that was ohio had become a state in 1803. The country was moving west. We need to find a way of tying these new Western Areas in with the capital. And the easiest way of doing that in the early 19th century was to put in a road. So that road will eventually extend from baltimore westward into cumberland, maryland, uniontown, washington, pa, and then in 1818 it comes here to wheeling. When it comes here to wheeling that will give this community which at that time is about 50 years old it gives it the real spurt it needs to grow. Over the next 20 to 25 years the population of wheeling will almost triple. Wheeling starts as an outpost on the frontier. That river was the western extent of the United States in the 1770s. Its going to be a very small community. Most of the buildings will be made out of logs and some kind of lumber. As we

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