Businesses take initiative ; Companies across Ohio will spearhead the drive to get the Third Frontier program renewed.William Hershey Columbus Bureau
In 1811 the federal government began work on a section of hard-surfaced (macadamized) road reaching from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) on the Ohio River. Other sections were completed by 1833 to Columbus, Ohio, at which point the state was forced by the ...
(now West Virginia) on theOhio River. Other sections were completed by 1833 toColumbus, Ohio, at which point the state was forced by the opponents of national internal improvements (as roads and canals were known) to take over the “preservation and repair” of the road within its borders....