FEDERAL SECTION - INDEX

Last Update: May 13, 2011

FEDERAL SECTION - INDEX

Last Update: Sept. 2, 2011

1805 and Earlier


• Sec. of the Treasury Albert Gallatin's "Origin of the National Road" Letter to William Giles, M.C. 1802
• Committee Report On Disbursement of Money for Construction of the Ohio-Atlantic Road. Dec. 19, 1805
• Committee Report on the Selection of a Route From the Atlantic to Ohio, 1805



Authorization for Construction of the Federal Road, 1806

• Act to Regulate the Federal Road from Ohio to the Atlantic, March 1806
• Commissioner's Report to Pres. Jefferson, December 30, 1806
• Guide to Landmark References used in 1806 Commissioner's Route Recommendations for the Proposed Cumberland Road.  Page 1   Page 2



Start of Construction and Completion to Wheeling, VA [W.VA]. 1807 to 1818

• When Did Construction On the Cumberland Road Begin?
• Cumberland Road: Commissioner's Report to Pres. Jefferson, January 15, 1808
• The Cumberland / National Road and the War of 1812
• Albert Gallatin's Report to Congrss on Canal, Rivers and Roads, 1807, East Coast to Ohio only
• Latrobe's Letter to Gallatin on the Road, 1813
• List of Contractors, contract dates and Cumberland / National Road construction costs from Section No. 1, Cumberland, MD to Section No. 19, Wheeling, VA (WV) - May, 1811 to Feb. 1817(PDF File)



Finish of Construction of the National Pike from Baltimore, MD to Cumberland, MD (Approx. 1822)

• Act to Erect Toll Gates on the Cumberland Road and the Monroe Veto, 1822
• Annual Reports to Congress On the Progress of Construction On the Cumberland / National Road (Complete Reports) Feb. 12 to Jan. 1822
• Supt. David Shriver's Progress Reports to Congress On the Construction of the Cumberland Road, Jan. 1822 to Ja. 1822.



Reconstruction of the Cumberland National Road (Cumberland, MD to Wheeling, VA [WVA]) Pending Return to State Ownership.

• US House of Representatives Debate On the Appropriation to Repair the Cumberland Road, June, 1834
• Captain Richard Delafield/Corps of Engineer Documents Relating to the Repair of the Cumberland Road, 1832 and Onward
• Letters Involving the Passage of the C&O Canal Through the Narrows During Reconstuction, 1833
• Preservation and Repair of the Cumberland Road and the Construction of the Wills Creek Bridge, circa 1818 to 1837
• Senate Debate On the Restoration of Funds Cut in 1834 for the Completion of the Cumberland Road, June 1835
• US Congressional Acts to Fund the Repair and Continuation of the Cumberland Road, 1818 to 1835
• Virginia (Later WV) Act to Accept the Cumberland Road From the Federal Government, March 1832 (See Maryland and PA for their acts)



Construction of the Western National Pike from Stuebenville, WV to Vandalia, IL

• DEBATE IN THE SENATE, February 26, 1836, On the bill making an appropriation for the completion of the Cumberland Road in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri.