BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Historic National Road @ State Line

MD -- Historic National Road @ State Line:

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1. NRSTAT_080121_02.JPG: Apparently one of the original cast iron mile markers from the National Road.
2. NRSTAT_080121_16.JPG: The Historic National Road: The Road That Built The Nation sign: The State Line: Last Stop In Maryland: Here America's first interstate highway enters Pennsylvania. The National Road started in Cumberland, connected to a series of privately funded turnpikes from Baltimore, and eventually wound its way through four states to Illinois. Looking east from here, millions of early travelers faced several 3,000 foot Appalachian ridges as they road and walked toward the Chesapeake Bay and the port of Baltimore. Heading west, horsemen, stagecoaches and freight wagons passed over more peaks before they plunged into the Ohio River Valley, headed for the plains of the American heartland to the Mississippi River. Using old trails through what were once Iroquois, Delaware and Shawnee hunting lands, the National Road joined Colonial America with the Northwest Territory. Merchants, traders and families from all over the world journeyed along this route in their quest to claim land, expand markets and form new lives. Pig's Ear Road, on the Mason-Dixon Line, crosses the National Road at the State Line Methodist Church to your left. The church and school were moved here in 1900 from the Jasper Augustine property in Addison, PA. It 1903, it official became the State Line Church. The Mason-Dixon Line runs through here: In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, arrived in America to settle this now famous boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania. The stones, weighing between 300 and 600 pounds, were quarried of limestone in Great Britain and shipped to America. The terrain got so hilly that Mason and Dixon erected large rock grouping around wooden posts west of Sideling Hill. Leftover markers were stored at Fort Frederick and finally installed in 1901 and 1903. The 96 mile distance to Wheeling, West Virginia, is marked on the old cast iron mile post.
3. NRSTAT_080121_24.JPG: State Line Church in the foreground. It's on the border with Pennsylvania. The National Road is the one that goes off in the distance.
4. NRSTAT_080121_43.JPG: One of the new mile markers. Note the rusted poles which used to anchor the cast iron version.
5. NRSTAT_080121_52.JPG: Pigs Ear Road is the one with the stop sign
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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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