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From trail to railway through the Appalachians

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Albert Perry Brigham
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The book traces how travel and transport across the Appalachian region developed from primitive trails and waterways into canals, turnpikes, and railways that connected eastern ports to inland settlements. It combines physical geography with historical narrative and maps to explain route selection, engineering challenges, and regional connections. Chapters profile major corridors and cities across New England, New York, Pennsylvania, the Ohio Valley, and the southern highlands, and examine how transportation infrastructure shaped migration, commerce, and the opening of western territories.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Figure Page
1. Cunard Steamship 3
2. Union Station, Springfield 6
3. Deerfield Valley, Charlemont, Mass. 8
4. Eastern Portal of Hoosac Tunnel 11
5. South Station, Boston 12
6. Henry Hudson 16
7. Sir William Johnson 20
8. Genesee Street, Utica 23
9. Old Fort Johnson, Amsterdam, New York 26
10. Oriskany Battle Monument 30
11. Herkimer directing the Battle of Oriskany 33
12. Herkimer’s Monument and Mansion 36
13. De Witt Clinton 43
14. Erie Canal, Utica 46
15. Erie Canal, Syracuse 48
16. Traveling by Packet on the Erie Canal 50
17. Erie Canal and Solvay Works, Syracuse 51
18. De Witt Clinton Train 54
19. Twentieth Century Limited 57
20. Rounding the Noses, Mohawk Valley 59
21. Penn Square, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 65
22. Bridge over Conestoga Creek, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 67
23. Tollhouse near Lancaster, Pennsylvania 68
24. Hambright’s Hotel, on the “Lancaster Pike” 70
25. Old Road House, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 71
26. Freight Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad 75
27. Tunnel, Portage Railway 76
28. Broad Street Station, Philadelphia 77
29. Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad, above Harrisburg 79
30. Pennsylvania Railroad Shops, Altoona 80
31. Horseshoe Curve, Pennsylvania Railroad 81
32. Rock Cut, Pennsylvania Railroad 84
33. Tollhouse near Brownsville, Pennsylvania 87
34. Milestone, Braddock’s Road, Frostburg, Maryland 90
35. Old Road House, Brownsville, Pennsylvania 92
36. Cumberland and Gap in Wills Mountain 95
37. Bridge and Monument, National Road, near Wheeling, West Virginia 96
38. Mount Royal Station, Baltimore 99
39. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Cumberland 100
40. Highest Point on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Sand Patch, Pennsylvania 103
41. Down the Potomac from Harpers Ferry 106
42. Coke Ovens, Meyersdale, Pennsylvania 108
43. The Observation End, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 110
44. Old Blockhouse, Pittsburg 112
45. Pittsburg 115
46. Coal Barges, Pittsburg 119
47. Pittsburg at Night 120
48. Furnaces near Pittsburg 121
49. River Front, Cincinnati 125
50. Luray, Shenandoah Valley 131
51. James River Gap in the Blue Ridge 134
52. Hilly Farm Lands, near Knoxville 136
53. Great Valley, from the Pinnacle, Cumberland Gap 139
54. Cumberland Gap from the East 143
55. Daniel Boone 145
56. Pineville Gap, Cumberland River 147
57. Cornfield near Cumberland Gap 150
58. Kentucky Blue Grass 152
59. Three States Monument, Cumberland Gap 153
60. George Rogers Clark 157
61. On the French Broad 159
62. John Sevier 162
63. James Robertson 164
64. Sevier Monument, Knoxville 165
65. Old Statehouse, Knoxville 166
66. Street in Knoxville 168
67. On the Campus, University of Tennessee 169
68. Marble Quarry near Knoxville 171
69. Statehouse, Nashville 173
70. Chattanooga from Cameron Hill 175
71. Broad Street, Atlanta 177
72. Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, Atlanta 178
73. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 179
74. Iron Furnace, Birmingham 180
MAPS
Eastern United States Frontispiece
New England 4
New York 26
Pennsylvania 64
Southern Appalachian Region 132