The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-05-20
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army across Maryland in 1855 to at
tack the French, and over the same
route his shattered regiments retreat
ed after the terrible defeat near Fort
DeQuense on July 9Th.
Braddock's Army assembled in Fort
Cumberland in May. Sergeant says:
"On the 30th of May, Sir John St.
Clair, with Major Chapman and six
hundred men set out to clear q road
to the Little Meadows (now the Stone
House Farm east of Grantsville) on
the Youghiogheny, thirty miles dis
tant, where they were to erect forth
fed camp. The army followed in three
divisions" beginning on the 7th of
June. The route chosen by St. Clair
followed implicitly" the Nemacolin
Path. 1t was with great difficulty and
long delays that the road was made
passable for the army with its artil-
iery and long wagon train. Braddock's
army camped in Maryland, after leav-
ing Fort Cumberland, at Spendelow's,
Martins plantation, Savage River,
Little Meadows, Shade Run, near
Grantsville, and at Bear Camp, west of
Keyser's Ridge.
The old Braddock Road can be easily
followed through the forests of Gar
rett county, though trees of consider
able size now grow in it's well-worn
bed.
The Cumberland" or National
Road, now U. S. Route 40 (Old Trails
Highway, followed in Maryland, the
general direction of the Braddock
Road, but was not built on the old road
bed. 1t was in fact a new road which
crossed the Braddock Road three or
four times in this county, shortening
the distance considerably by going
more directly up and down the noun
tains.
The Glades Path
This trail was followed by the In
dams and early hunters from the Po-
tomac to reach the hunting grounds of
the Great Glades of the Youghiogheny.
Later the settlers on the South Branch
of the Potomac drove herds of cattle
over it to Craze in the glades. Finally
the old State Road followed this route
from Western Port to the Virginia
line.
The Glades Path crossed the Poto-
mac from Virginia at Western Port,
then the Savage River at Blooming
ton. Here it divided for a time-one
branch (later the Bloomington Road)
going northwest over the hills to Cas-
tie Hill, near the summit of the Great
Backbone. The other branch went up
the Potomac to Joseph Davis settle
ment Opposite Barnum, w. Va.), and
thence northwest to Castle Hill, and
from that point down the west slope of
Backbone Mountain by Swanton and
across the glades to Yough Glades
(Oakland), thence to the State line
east of Cranberry Summit (Terra
Alta) and the Dunkard Bottom on
Cheat River.
In his Journal of 1884, writing at
Charles Friends cabin, Washington
notes that Maryland is planning to
build road to connect with Virginia
road under construction.
Joseph Nevill, in letter dated June
3, 1876, Hardy county, Va, to Gov
ernor Henry of that State, says:
"Colo. Francis Deakins and myself
have been out on viewing and laying
off the road over the Allegania Noun
tain, to be cut by this State and the
State Of Maryland, and is now prepar-
ing to open the same. We have agreed
to draw 500 pounds from each State,
which, we think, will be sufficient for
the first opening"
On May 10, 1889, Neville wrote Gov.
Randolph of Virginia:
81 have opened them a very good
Road through many Mountains, the
distance of seventy miles, for which 1
received nothing, or next to nothing ="
Thus the old Glades Path became
the new State Road of 1890. 1t followed
the upper Glades Path to Castle Hill,
thence by Swans Mill across the
Glades by Ingram's, Yough Glades
(Oakland), to the Virginia line east
of Terra Alta.
The Great War Path
Later known as McCullough's Pack
Horse Path, was an Indian and traders
trail from Winchester and Moorefeld,
Va, westward to the Ohio. It was
traversed by pack horses until wagon
roads were built over the mountains.
It never became a road, and its exact
location is now difficult to trace, but
it is referred to in the survey of Lord
Baltimore's Manor in 1853 and in sew
eral of the surveys Of 1774. Washing
ton travelled this path on his journey
from "the West" in 1884. Many of the
settlers in Western Virginia and
the Ohio Country used the Mccullough
Path before roads were built across