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America’S First Interstate—The National Road And Its Reach Toward St. Clair County, Illinois, Andrew Theising May 2010

America’S First Interstate—The National Road And Its Reach Toward St. Clair County, Illinois, Andrew Theising

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The National Road was to span from Maryland to the Mississippi River, but never made it—in part due to a political battle over the location of the new Illinois state capital in the 1830s.