CSPAN Washington Journal January 18, 2015
Feature all of our history tv program from wheeling in one block. [video clip] the first project funded by the federal government for growth production was the National Road that extended from cumberland, maryland to wheeling, virginia. One of the reasons for that was that ohio had become a stay in 1803, the country was moving west, we needed to find a way to tie these Western Areas into the capital. The easiest way of doing that in the early 19th century was to put in a road. It would extend fr...
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