This graceful structure is one of my favorite stops along the National Road in Maryland.
The Wilson Bridge carried the National Road and US 40 over Conococheague Creek west of Hagerstown, Maryland for 117 years. (Check out this remarkable photo of the bridge while it still carried US 40.) A marvel of engineering in its day, few [...]
We spent maybe fifteen minutes in New Market, Maryland. We had a lot of ground to cover that day, you know. But New Market, the “antiques capital of Maryland,” is quite a destination for antiques tourists, and I’m sure they spend a great deal more time on a stop there than we did.
New Market has [...]
Ellicott City, Maryland, was founded in 1772 around the Ellicott brothers’ flour mill. It later became a transportation hub as the National Road passed through it and the B&O Railroad laid the nation’s first miles of commercial track to it. Here’s where the two roads intersect:
A Berkeley professor named George Stewart spent a good chunk [...]
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