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WHEELING - In partnership with Wheeling Heritage, the Fort Henry Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Wheeling Daughters of the American Revolution, author Brady Crytzer will discuss his new book, "The National Road: George Washington and America’s First Highway West."
This special program will take place from 1-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Ohio County Public Library in downtown Wheeling.
The book is the first narrative history of the federal project -- begun decades before the nation itself was born and ranging through the 1830s -- that connected the United States across the Alleghenies and into the western frontier.
Starting with a young Washington's dream of uniting the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, historian Crytzer traces the political rivalries and engineering marvels that created an artery bringing settlers, ideas and commerce deep into the American interior.