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I anticipated visiting the
National Road Museum across the road during my stay at
Baker's but I travel too slow and get distracted too easily. The museum
was closed by the time I got there. I considered hanging around for what I
thought would be a 10:00 AM opening but learned that on Sunday it opens at
noon. Visiting the outside was all I got to do this time.
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This is the western end of the brick segment of the National Road that
runs through Norwich, OH.
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Everyone knows that familiarity breeds contempt but I think it more often
breeds inattention. I have stopped many times at the Fox Creek S-bridge
near New Concord but today it seems I drove right by it without even
realizing it. Sadly, this was only the first (unless I later remember an
earlier one) of several major goofs on this trip.
The Peters Creek S-bridge, just west of Cambridge, is one I've had conflicted thoughts about. As the plaque indicates, one of the organizations involved in the 2006 renovation of the 1828 bridge was the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As much as I like seeing historic structures saved and maintained, I have trouble thinking of the repairing of this bypassed and long-closed bridge as an emergency. The panel beside the mile marker talks about National Road mile markers in Ohio. That is a subject covered in detail in Cyndie Gerken's Marking the Miles. Her Building the Bridges book provides an equally detailed look at Ohio's National Road bridges, some S shaped and some not. |
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Ohio sure has some fine looking courthouses. This is the Guernsey County
Courthouse in Cambridge with an also fine looking National Road mile
marker in front of it.
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Peacock Road was paved in brick as part of the
effort to improve supply transportation in the period preceding World War
I which coincided with the period of NOTR development.
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A friend and I spotted this roadside display east of Old Washington in
June while headed to Pennsylvania and I have since seen pictures of it
online. Now I have my own pictures.
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Here's another great looking courthouse in St. Clairsville in Belmont
County. I have probably heard why the mile marker here is an unusual
marble cube and imagine it has something to do with this being where
construction of the Ohio portion of the National
Road began.
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I had heard of at least a partial closure of the 1933 US-40 Arches of
Memory bridge in Blaine, OH, and followed the detour on I-70 to its
eastern end to find it totally closed. I have seen nothing definite on its
future. The 1828 Blaine Hill S-Bridge next to
it remains open to pedestrians only. Actually, the steps leading to the
deck of the newer bridge (which I have climbed exactly once) appear open
so maybe that bridge could be considered available to pedestrians too.
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Continuing with the closed bridge theme, here's one that has been open
only to pedestrians since September, 2019. Despite some major
rehabilitation work, it is beginning to seem unlikely that the Wheeling
Suspension Bridge will ever be reopened to vehicles. On this eastbound
trip, I took somewhat unusual for me pictures of the western end of the
bridge. Of course, I had to include one of the other end too.
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West Virginia's Madonna of the Trail is on the outskirts of Wheeling with
another closed bridge just beyond. This is the Elm Grove Stone Bridge
built in 1817 but modified over the years.
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Here is the entire Nat ional Road in Pennsylvania in a single panel. It
begins with the Century Inn (originally Hill's
Tavern) followed by a very un-road-related boat topped silo. Then it
is Pennsylvania's Madonna of the Trail in Beallsville, the
Dunlap Creak Bridge in Brownsville, and the
Searight and Addison toll houses.
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I stopped for the night at the 1842 Casselman Inn in Grantsville, MD. My room is
here but I failed to photo half of it so filled
the space with a headboard shot. What might look like a second bathroom is
a shared shower down the hall for folks (like me) who don't care for tubs.
The Casselman's restaurant is closed on Sundays so I headed down the road
to the Cornucopia Cafe
for some very good Teriyaki Salmon.
The cafe is next to the Casselman River Bridge State Park so naturally I walked over to grab some photos. This closed bridge thing is starting to be annoying. |
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