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- NRFUNK_070102_01.JPG: The Historic National Road: The Road The Built the Nation:
Baltimore Street: Funkstown's Link to the Chesapeake;
When the National Road was completed through Funkstown in 1823. A rush of "stagecoaches and wagon teams, droves of cattle, Teamsters and travelers" flooded through the town. Although Baltimore with 70 miles to the east, the Funkstown city founders named their main street. "Baltimore," pointing out their role as the link between the shores of the Chesapeake, the Great Valley of Virginia and the mountains to the west.
Originally named "Jerusalem" by German immigrant Jacob Funke in 1767, Funkstown competed for the Washington County seat but lost to neighboring Hagerstown. Surviving taverns, inns and store buildings along Baltimore Street hold memories of the early travelers going west along the National Road -- "such a rush and roar of movement as this country will never see again." One old resident recalled the busy road is having "the animation of a Perpetual Fair."
- NRFUNK_070102_09.JPG: The Historic National Road: The Road The Built the Nation:
Building the Funkstown Bridge: "The Turnpike bridge of Funkstown is the only one... which seems to belong to a town." Helen Ashe Hayes, "The Antietam and Its Bridges."
This bridge, finished in 1823, is perhaps the oldest one over Antietam Creek. Irish immigrant laborers made up the construction crew. Many worked on the road to pay off the cost of their passage from the old country, what they called "working to pay off the dead horse." The "great brigade" of the Irish leveling the roadway and breaking rocks caused one traveler to comment that they were "building a roadway good enough for any emperor to travel over..."
Workers at a local dye factory regularly taunted the immigrants. One St. Patrick's Day, the Irish workers marched into town to avenge the insults. Local militia from Hagerstown and Funkstown arrived to keep the peace. The worst injury was "a wounded by the kick of a horse."
The Bridge was widened in 1931 with the addition of a concrete facade on the side that faces you. The original stone facing remains on the opposite side.
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