BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Historic National Road @ Clear Spring

MD -- Historic National Road @ Clear Spring:

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1. NRCLRS_080203_03.JPG: US 40 (National Road) goes off into the distance
2. NRCLRS_080203_04.JPG: "82m ToB" (82 miles to Baltimore)
3. NRCLRS_080203_13.JPG: The Historic National Road: The Road That Built The Nation: A Road Nurtures a Vision: The Historic National Road and Clear Spring: "The citizens at all times aim to be surpassed by no other town in the County." -- Martin Lohr, Clear Spring historian, 1890s In 1821, Martin Myers chose a site that straddled a "clear spring" at the foot of Fairview Mountain to lay out a village he called "Myersville." Fifteen years later, the town was called "Clear Spring" and its 700 thriving inhabitants provided services for travelers on the National Road. As many as twenty-four stagecoaches passed through the town each day. Seven hotels offered food and lodging -- twelve cents a night for a bed shared by three strangers. Twenty-five shoemakers, six tailors, four blacksmiths, three wheelwrights, three wagon makers, three saddlers, and endless store keepers kept busy as the National Road flourished. Today, many of the early buildings remain and the faces of characters from the National Road provide a glimpse into its past. Special Delivery: In the early 1900s, J. Franklin Clopper hauled goods between Hagerstown and Clear Spring. In the summer, he delivered ice to housewives who were churning butter or making ice cream. In 1914, he sold his horses and wagons and bought a two-ton Brockway truck for $2,000 -- the first truck in Clear Spring.
4. NRCLRS_080203_24.JPG: The Historic National Road: The Road That Built The Nation: Miller's Tavern & Spickler's Buggy Factory: Surreys, Stagecoaches and Tin Lizzies. The Miller Hotel was one of the most popular destinations along the National Road in Washington County. Traveler T.B. Seabright recalled in 1894, "There were large rooms adapted to dancing purposes, and young men and maidens of the vicinity frequently tripped to the notes of old time music in its spacious halls... The old Wagoners engaged in these festivities with gusto..." National Road travelers also came to this area to upgrade their means of transportation. Nearby, the Spickler's Buggy Factory developed rubber-tired buggies, improved horse-drawn sleighs, and later was the site of the first automobile dealer in Washington County. Lewis Spickler, inventor and entrepreneur: "My father had a tent at the Hagerstown Fair and showed the first rubber-tired buggy in Washington County." -- Elizabeth Herbert, daughter of promoter Lewis Spickler Lewis Spickler invested a new model horse-drawn sleigh in 1868 at his father's blacksmith shop. The filing in the U.S. Patent office explained the improvements. "The draught is less. The sleigh is less likely to overturn. The horse does not strike his heels against any portion of the sleigh... The snow from the horse's feet is thrown under the sleigh, instead of into the faces of the occupants... The sleigh is more easily drawn through snow drifts."
5. NRCLRS_080203_30.JPG: First car dealership in Washington County was in this building
6. NRCLRS_080203_33.JPG: Miller Hotel
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Generally-Related Pages: Other pages with content (MD -- Clear Spring) somewhat related to this one: [Display ALL photos on one page]:
- 2008_MD_Clear_Spring: MD -- Clear Spring (5 photos from 2008)
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [Historic National Road] [Display ALL Historic National Road photos] [History 1800s (excl wars)] [Structures] [Transportation (Road)]
2008 photos: Equipment this year: I was using three cameras -- the Fuji S9000 and the Canon Rebel Xti from last year, and a new camera, the Fuji S100fs. The first two cameras had their pluses and minuses and I really didn't have a single camera that I thought I could use for just about everything. But I loved the S100fs and used it almost exclusively this year. Trips this year: (1) Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Springfield, Missouri , (2) a week in New York, (3) a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con, (4) a driving trip to St. Louis, and (5) a visit to dad and Dixie's in Asheville, North Carolina. Ego strokes: A picture I'd taken last year during a Friends of the Homeless event was published in USA Today with a photo credit and everything! I became a volunteer photographer with the AFI/Silver theater. Number of photos taken this year: 330,000.
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