Why they celebrated the new concrete paving!
One journey that is enjoyable is following the Old National Road, aka US 40. For one thing, you are not on an interstate! Anyway, near Brownsville, Ohio, east of Columbus, you’ll find the Eagle’s Nest Monument. It was erected around 1916 after a 29 mile stretch of the then unimproved and often nearly impassable road was replaced with concrete. The stretch of highway ran from Zanesville to Hebron. The large granite rock has some great markings, including a rough Conestoga wagon.
The Eagles Nest monument
Conestoga wagon etched into the granite
You are 220 miles from the start of the National Road in Cumberland, MD.
Get off the interstate and travel the Old National Road anywhere along the route in any state. The signage is excellent and easy to follow, and you won’t be bored!
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Great glimpse of history! We forget how dire the roads were in the old days after a bit of rain a a few carts to mush up all that mud!
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“Mush up the mud” Well said! 😂
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😉
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Nice blog
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Thank you!
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I need to get back on the road! Miss seeing the fun things that are right beside the road sometimes. We always looked at the signs and if they interested us we stopped. Sometimes we googled to see if it would be worth the stop.
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So true. We literally just found this by accident.
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So interesting, we should remember our heritage. That was mighty fast shipping on the jar, guys!
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We always ship next business day. It’s expected these days!
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Is it? I’ll take your word on that, my mother looooved these jars, had several of them in the kitchen as decor. She passed in 2012, the kitchen still has those beautiful jars and other decor as she left them. My dad won’t change much in the house at all.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
TALK ABOUT GETTING IN A RUT!!!!!
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Thanks for the reblog! Much appreciated.
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YOU ARE WELCOME!
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Like Anthony Bourdain claims, the best way to travel is without an agenda, allows for stumbling on those unexpected treasures! C
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Thanks for taking us with you – I find it very interesting
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We appreciate your riding along! 😉
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Around 1935, the newly formed Harlem Globetrotters still were making visits to small towns in Iowa, Illinois, and no doubt elsewhere. They were scheduled to come to my parents’ hometown, Melcher, Iowa, but the game had to be postponed when their Model As got stuck in Iowa spring mud — just like in that first photo!
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What a great story and neat tie in to the photo we posted. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Fascinating modern cave drawing
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Interesting take on the wagon pictograph. 🙂
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My first home in life was on Old National Road!!!!!! Springfield Ohio. As you can imagine, what fun it was to read this.
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Glad we brought it to you! We have followed the road through Springfield, so we have been by you first home!
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Paul and Lorena travelled on the 40 to get to Zion Grove in Tennessee in Daybreak: Flatlined. I’m so glad to see another traveler on the same road.
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We’re glad to share!
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Loved reading about this style of traveling. When I was three and again when I was five, my parents and grandparents drove from Tennessee to California (1949 and 1951). Great trips with exciting encounters with porcupines and mountain roads that had partially dropped off the mountain — loved the signs, the primitive museums, the funny little cabins and “last chance for –” signs. I need to get back to that kind of adventure!
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Sounds like you could write several stories about your family travels!
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I plan to! I am starting a memoir-style blog about growing up in Tennessee. Check out Tennessee Girl at tennesseegirl.blog.
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Will do! 🙂
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Our daughter and son-in-law live in Evansville IN and got snow on their blueberries! I thought your video was petals falling from a blooming tree at first!
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