Ebook The Old Pike

Old Taverns and Tavern Keepers continued - West Alexander to Wheeling; West of Wheeling - Old Stage Lines Beyond the Ohio River - Through Indiana - The Road Disappears Among the Prairies of Illinois; Superintendents under National and State Control - Old Mile Posts, etc; Old Contractors - Cost of the Road - Contractors for Repairs, etc; Thomas Endsley, William Sheets, W. M. F. Magraw, etc; Dumb Ike - Reminiscences of Uniontown - Crazy Billy, etc; The Trial of Dr. John F. Braddee for Robbing the U. S. Mails; Visit of John Quincy Adams to Uniontown in 1837 - Received by Dr. Hugh Campbell - The National Road a Monument of the Past - A Comparison with the Appian Way; Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania Relating to the Cumberland Road - Unexpended Balances in Indiana - Accounts of Two Old Commissioners - Rates of Toll - Letters of Albert Gallatin, Ebenezer Finley and Thomas A. Wiley - Curiosities of the Old Postal Service