The Delaware Railroad

From the earliest days of rail construction in this country, the advantages of linking the Delmarva Peninsula to the expanding urban markets of the nation were obvious. In 1836 the General Assembly chartered the Delaware Railroad for the purpose of ...

The International Memorial to the Underground Railroad

Detroit Michigan became a well-known destination along the Underground Railroad, due in large part to its proximity to Canada. Slavery was outlawed in Canada in 1833 and many American slaves seeking freedom sought refuge in that country.

By the 1830s, ...

Stone Blocks from the Camden and Amboy Railroad

These stone blocks, which were cut by hand by prisoners at Sing Sing Prison, were originally intended to support wooden rails, topped with iron straps, as was common practice at the time (c. 1830). This would have sufficed if the ...

The Old Braddock Road

This tablet marks a well preserved scar of the Old Braddock Trail, one of the most historic pioneer highways in all America.

Here, Nemacolin and his associates blazed the trail that became a National Highway.

Here, passed the laden pack horse train ...

The Road to Zion

In 1847, Brigham Young led 143 men, 2 women, and 3 children west along the Platte River, then southwest into Utah. By the 1860s, an exodus of more than 70,000 other Mormons followed this trail to their "New Zion." Today, ...

Canals and Railroads – Arteries to the Heart of Industrial Trent

As the United States began to feel the full force of the Industrial Revolution and expand its own manufacturing and commercial base, cities like Trenton that were blessed with an advantageous location were in the forefront of transportation developments. By ...

The Underground Railroad and Precursors to War

Among the events in the 1850s that helped drive the nation into civil war, the Christiana Riot put a controversial new law to a bloody test. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ordered federal officers to arrest suspected runaway slaves; ...

Orders Road School / The Orders Family

Side A:

Orders Road SchoolEducational standards for rural children did not exist during the early 1800s, but by the 1870s most states had enacted compulsory education laws. In rural areas, township school districts built schools like this one and assessed local ...

The York Road

Traveled by

General George Washington

and the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War from the

Dey Mansion at Preskness to the

Acquackanonk Landing on Passaic River

July - October - November

• 1780 •

Placed by the Captain Abraham Goodwin Chapter

Sons of the American Revolution -

...

Rest Areas on the I-Roads

?Early roadside rest areas were rural school grounds and country churchyards with their two little houses in back.

In Wisconsin, by 1920, curves were built to eliminate sharp road corners. Local garden clubs, with the American Legion and Auxiliary, began to ...