Transcriber's Note
There were a number of spelling and typographical errors in the original
text. The handling of each one is noted in the transcriber's note
at the end of this text. Footnotes have been located at the end of the
paragraphs where they appear. The underscore character indicates where
the original is in _italics_.
[Illustration: Yours truly
T B. Searight]
THE OLD PIKE.
A HISTORY OF
THE NATIONAL ROAD,
WITH
INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, AND ANECDOTES
THEREON.
ILLUSTRATED.
BY
THOMAS B. SEARIGHT.
UNIONTOWN, PA:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1894.
COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY T. B. SEARIGHT.
PRESSES OF
M. CULLATON & CO.,
RICHMOND, IND.
LETTER FROM JAMES G. BLAINE.
STANWOOD, BAR HARBOR, MAINE. }
September 8th, 1892. }
HON. T. B. SEARIGHT,
UNIONTOWN, PA.
MY DEAR FRIEND:--
I have received the sketches of the "Old Pike" regularly and have as
regularly read them, some of them more than once, especially where you
come near the Monongahela on either side of it, and thus strike the land
of my birth and boyhood. I could trace you all the way to Washington, at
Malden, at Centreville, at Billy Greenfield's in Beallsville, at
Hillsboro (Billy Robinson was a familiar name), at Dutch Charley
Miller's, at Ward's, at Pancake, and so on--familiar names, forever
endeared to my memory. I cherish the desire of riding over the "Old
Pike" with you, but I am afraid we shall contemplate it as a scheme
never to be realized.
Very sincerely,
Your friend,
JAMES G. BLAINE.
[Illustration]
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGES
Inception of the Road--Author's Motive in Writing its
History--No History of the Appian Way--A Popular Error
Corrected--Henry Clay, Andrew Stewart, T. M. T.
McKennan, General Beeson, Lewis Steenrod and Daniel
Sturgeon--Their Services in Behalf of the Road, etc.,
etc. 13-19