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Travel the Historic National
Road, which propelled the nation’s westward
expansion. The first federally funded road, authorized
by Congress in 1806, the National Road is now a federally
designated scenic byway. From the port of Baltimore,
retrace immigrant journeys along the road in their
quest to forge new lives, claim land, explore new
markets, and build a nation. Explore the cities and
classic old “pike” towns that grew along
America’s Main Street. Drive from Baltimore,
through Ellicott City, Frederick, Hagerstown, and
Cumberland, for almost 200 miles in Maryland, and
800 miles to the Mississippi River at St. Louis.
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