1519 Early Stage-Mail Route

Category: Markers

Marker reads, This route follows the Buffalo Trace from the Ohio to Licking rivers and was first known as Smiths Wagon Road. In 1829, President Andrew Jacksons Postmaster General, Wm. T. Barry, planned mail stage route, extension of branch of National Pike, from Zanesville through Lexington to New Orleans. Maysville to Washington was the first macadamized road west of the Alleghenies.