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Title: Across the continent by the Lincoln Highway
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gladding, Effie Price
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Roads
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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gahela, 216 ACROSS THE CONTINENT within ten miles of Fort Duquesne, nowPittsburg, July 9, 1755. He was borne back with the retreatingarmy to the old orchard camp, about one-fourth of a mile west of this park, wherehe died July 13, 1755. Lieutenant Colo-nel George Washington read the burialservice at the grave. We are on historic ground all along here. Alittle farther down the road we pass a tablet on aroadside boulder, erected in 1913 by the GreatCrossing Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution, to mark the old Nemacolinstrail, so named from the Delaware Indian guidefor the Ohio Company. The tablet records thatWashington passed this way in 1753, 1754, and1755. On the right of the road we pass a very old farm-house of red brick, back of which in a swampymeadow is the site of the camp of Braddocksforces. We go down the cow lane to see the oldcamp, whose outlines are marked. We are in a region of fine old stone bridges, andof beautiful orchard country, alternating with roll-
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& E a CO cs .u si . c c — CQ BY THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY 217 ing hiUs covered with hesivy forest. At Grants-ville we pass the old Dorsey House, now calledthe Hotel Castleman. This used to be a hostelmuch frequented by the farmers. A small boy whois playing in the street and who is sojourning herefor the summer gives us this information, and addsthat at the Hotel Castleman you have lots to eat,and plenty of it. We are sorry that it is not lun-cheon time so that we could put his statement to thetest. Passing through Grantsville we cross theold Castleman Bridge, an immense single span ofstone. Another fuie old bridge with very solidbuttresses spans Conococheague Creek. After luncheon in Cumberland, we press east toHagerstown. We are advised that we will find theroad far better if we drive east to Hagerstown andthen southwest to Winchester, instead of takingthe direct southeast route to Winchester from Cum-berland. We have an excellent road from Cum-berland to Hagerstown, and find the ri

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