The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-01-06
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C. D. Skaters house indicates the cabin location
otherwise foundation
Here Clothes had
veaon with Friend about trails From the nearby hill
he have viewed "the ae which he have admired Friend
Yghogheny
impractical because of the falls rapids in the In connection with
their talk Of proposed roads noted that two years later Col Francis
Deakn laid the State Road 90 Wsterno by Friends cabin
the State Line from which Virginia carried Clarkurg
generals party
aasment because of having only hmny for dinner offer the hero
the nothing hunting on
the but young Bushrod should have been able Kill deer the
gdes that day However the travellers carried some food with them There
local that Washington hard wheat biscuit of the
as a
washnon account of his visit at Charles Friends
written by him his probably Mt Vernon from
notes taken the Since of special interest community we
quote in
Sept 2e-Havng readily they
fire. started the dawnng of day. and passed along small path
much the
comfortable travel to one Charles Friends about 10 miles; where we could
get nothing for horses boiled for ourselves.
In this distance which aboundd
and advantage taken Of the hills (Which g) found the
ground would admit exceedingly with little causeing
of of the Gld; the Ridges between being chiefly white oak
land intermixed with grit
property Maryland who
has settled three families of Paatnes Geman 60 them
These gade have pretty appearance resembling cultivated lands and I'M
proved meadows at distances with woods here and there nersp
them lively soHohes of SITTER
and colder nature all Of them feel very early the effect OF frostthe
growth of them much unlike what called fancy with
other weeds also with alder and other shrubs The land between these
gades chiefly white oak dry soil In places there walnut
which The gades level
separate one from anohut thew are highly beneficial to the cu
whence the cattle driven pasture the spring
nd autumn
o Yoho
which about 25 yards impossible according his
between that BaddO Road account of the ap of the
water quantity oil stone and falls therebu these difficulties m the eyes
of examiner might be found altogether imagnary and if the
navigation of the Yoohay lies altogether in the State Of Pennsylvania
whose Inclination pesaes Of inc interest OF tft pal " mes "
the Hill this navigation
a. b EoIs I,r Tho Tnr1r @ o. . f,s r,a, IN tho orror Of Friend
who hunter well acquainted with all the well
nine years be made @ were it not for the reason just as
portant door 0 the o that country.
He is also of opinion that good road be had from the Dun
ker bottom the No Branch Pomac where NcCuocks
path it, and that the distance will exceed % miles, pass by his
will through the glades; white ridges will them
There will be Intervention hills this roadthe back bone
near the Branch and Bey Mountain near the Bottom both of which may
be easily the udiu these with
draw hundred with the other
CHARLES travelled McCuough Path
the
denis in Ryans Gade Joseph Logsden with them to Thomas Logs
Turnpike
lodged Of Washington
the Backbone bad the hill being steep and places o Thence
Joseph Logsdens good going the No Branch mien
famous road and Thomas Loden more partly pretty good and in
places very bad 81 was seldom favored with sight OF the sun but
handsomely bpned with rain the the way" from Cheat
young (Joseph hunting employment
cordng his acquainted with hill and ru between
Washington left Thomas Logsden little after aybreak the 9th
following day horses
had fagung journey tho the mountains Occasoned from
which continually falling bushes"
He at his
And tho disappointed of the objects which induced
undertake this journey namely the situation quality and advan
which
aowho had been informed regardless of legal equitable rights
them Philadelphia notwthand this dis
journey the
of the nhabtanand making reflections thereon
which
Yohogany Cheat
During the Wikey Rebellion of 1894 President Washington
Cumberland
| of Co I'm IVnno of that town., who
WASHINGTON sided Cherry Tree Meadows and became the first
| of of Alegany
| Lynn O Maryland old Continental
I cvily ente
officially in
In
horse At this Washington which had just