The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-05-20

spring ana CnarleS frlenQ CABIN.
Just below Oakland it crossed the Lit
tie Youghiogheny, thence northwest
across the Great Youghiogheny by Au-
gustine Friends cabin at Murley's
Glade, across Muddy Creek and over
the River Hill, entering Virginia east
of the Pine Swamp (Cranesville).
Hurlbut says there were two Nc
Cullough Paths from here west: the
"old Path" crossing Cheat River at
Ices Ferry, and the "new Path,
which crossed Cheat at the Dunkard
Bottom.
In northwestern Virginia the Path
was sometimes referred to as "the
Eastern Trail"
The Northwestern Trail
This trail also came from the South
Branch of the Potomac River down
by Mount Storm to the North Branch
of the Potomac, which it crossed into
Maryland at the Alexander Smith
settlement just above German; thence
over Backbone and thru the glades
near Red House to the Virginia line
near Eglon, thence down Goff's Ridge,
crossing Cheat River above Rowles-
burg.
Part of the route Of this trail was
followed later thru Maryland by the
Moorefield-Kingwood road.
In 1927 the Northwestern Road
Company was Incorporated by the Vir-
GINA Assembly to construct a road
from Winchester to some point on the
Ohio River. Col. Claude Crozet, a noted
French engineer, was appointed chief
engineer. He and his assistants Sc
lected and surveyed the route, which,
thru Garrett county, followed in gen.
eral the old Northwestern Trail, cross
ing Backbone Mountain at Table Rock,
3100 feet above sea level.
In 1881 the Virginia Company was
reorganized and other steps taken to
complete the Northwestern Turn
pike Road" as it was called. The eight
and one-half miles of the connecting
link thru Garrett county were built by
a Maryland corporation, the North
western Turnpike Company" which
on August 26, 1888, at Slicer's Hote!
in Cumberland, opened it's books for
subscriptions for its stock. The COM
pany appears to have completed its
'link" in 1884, and to have set up
two toll gates on its section of this i'm
portant highway.
The Northwestern Turnpike is now
U. S. Route so, one of the important
interstate highways of the nation.
The Bear Camp Path
(Old Morgantown Road)
This connecting Indian trail left
Nemacolin's Trail at the Bear Camp
(Simkin's TAVERN; passed west thru
The Cove, crossed the Youghiogheny
at Shelby's Port, thence up Buffalo
Run and over Frazee's Ridge and on
westward to Morgan Town.
The Bear Camp Path was used by
many Of the early settlers of north
western Virginia who came up the
Braddock Road with their pack horses.
Soon after the Revolutionary War it
was widened and improved so that
wagons could pass and was then some
times known as the Morgan Town
Mud Pike"
The Blooming Rose Path
This old path left the Bear Camp
Path near Shelby's Port, passed over
Blooming Rose by Halls Settlement
and Sand Spring into Virginia at the
Round Glade and Fort Morris, thence
to the Great War Path on the Big
Sandy.
On January 8, 1900, the Maryland
General Assembly passed an Act, be-
ginning
WHEREAS, Sundry inhabitants
of Allegany county, by their petition
to the General Assembly, have set
forth that they labor under many in
convenience for the want of public
road to leave the Morgantown Road
on the ridge between Aza Beall's and
William Coddington's, and from thence
to the line that divides the States of
Maryland and Virginia, near the lands
of John Forrest, and have prayed that
a road may be laid out and opened in
said direction at their expense, which
appearing to this Assembly reasona-
BILE; therefore =" it was enacted
that Jesse Tomlinson, George Lynn
and Basil Israel lay out said road, etc.
This commission surveyed the road
June End and Sd, 1900, and made their
return" March 8, 1902, the route fol-
lowing in general the old Blooming
Rose Indian Path before mentioned,
from the lands of Aza Beall at Shelby's
Port to those of Forrest at "the Round
Glade" in Virginia. The map of the new
road shows these settlers located on it:
William Coddington e houses; John
Rutan, c. Riland, Daniel More, ].
Marley. Damages were awarded to
William Coddington, So, and to one