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1741 - Road: York, PA to Baltmore, MD

Excerpt from Clayton Colman Hall, Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Page 450:

About 1741, a road was opened from York, PA to Baltimore, MD. The result was the commencement of a profitable trade with the regions in the north and on the borderland between Maryland and Pennsylvania. "As long ago as 1751, in the month of October, no less than sixty wagons loaded with flaxseed, came down to Baltimore from the back country. Five years later, sixty-one overseers were appointed by the justices, each for one section of the road. The resources of the interior had been discovered, highways to the waterside had been begun, and the development of Baltimore was assured." (Sioussat, p. 132).

1754 - Court: York County, PA, Joppa Road Review

Joppa Road is improved

The county court reviews the "crooked and narrow" Joppa Road and orders improvements. A survey shows the road, constructed in 1742, to measure 18 3/4 miles from York to the Maryland line where it extends southward to the port town of Joppa, Md.

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Sources:

Clayton Colman Hall, Editor, Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Volume 1. Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912. Original from Harvard University, Digitized Sep 11, 2006. Page 450, York Road to Baltimore. View @ Google Books

Daily Record/Sunday News, York, PA, 1750 - 1775. View @ YDR