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National Road USA_National Geographic magazine 3/1998 22 images Created 1 Apr 2021

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  • A cyclist on a 19th century style cycle pedals ahead of a thunderstorm.
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  • Prewashed produce is today's special at a roadside stand run by Robert Conway, sheltered by his assets during a western Pennsylvania rainstorm. Farmers were e arly beneficiaries of the National Road as they found markets beyond nearby tow ns.
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  • Sunday church dresses double as bathing suits for the Byler sisters below the C asselman River bridge in Grantsville, Maryland. Rising stone by stone in 1813 l ike a lone cathedral rib, the 50-foot highway arch was designed to clear a cana l that never came.
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  • A 1925 Model T drives down an old strip of National Road.
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  • Some 40,000 train buffs a year pull out of Cumberland on a 16-mile scenic ride to Frostburg.
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  • Cars drive down a misty stretch of National Road in winter.
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  • The Don Stewart family, dressed in period attire, ride old-fashioned bicycles dating from the late 1800's.
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  • A 1931 Ford Cabriolet drives down National Road.
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  • A young girl waits for her turn to go at an 1800's fashion show at the Waleski Farm.
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  • Dr. George Mitchell is an 82-year-old "country doctor" who is still in practice. He estimates that he has delivered 1500 babies.
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  • A farmer stands with his child in a cornfield.
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  • Sunday church dresses double as bathing suits for the Byler sisters below the C asselman River Bridge in Grantsville, Maryland. Rising stone by stone in 1813 l ike a lone cathedral rib, the 50-foot highway arch was designed to clear a cana l that never came.
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  • A silhouetted girl running up Braddock's Trace, a trail behind George Washingto n's hastily built retreat, Fort Necessity.
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  • For over 25 years a wagon train has traveled across western Pennsylvania to cel ebrate the Pike Festival on the National Road.
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  • Boy holds a small kitten on his family farm in Greenup, Illinois..
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  • Portrait of a smiling man with his pet snake.
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  • Girl holds a small kitten on her family farm in Greenup, Illinois.
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  • The Rohe family picks sweet corn on their family farm.
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  • The Rohe family shucks sweet corn on their family farm.
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  • Man on antique bike pedals ahead of an Indiana thunderstorm.
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  • Roger Will prepares his fields for planting beans.
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  • Abraham Lincoln once made an address at the Illinois State House, and Harry Hahn has been playing Lincoln since 1960.
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