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

MD -- Historic National Road @ Clear Spring:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
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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