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A need for an efficient system to transport both the settlers wishing to move west (to start new lives) and for the transportation of goods (manufactured and grown alike) was called for by the masses even before we were a nation. It seems only logical that a mode of transportation on land would have to be developed; for there were no waterways linking certain regions of the vast landscape we now call the United States. Most folks at the time considered water-travel to be the preferred method of transportation/travel. The "roads" that were to be built, initially, were thought of as only a means to connect the water routes of the nations to bring people, goods, territories, and trade together, and to expand the frontiers.
There were, at the time, many people who deemed a national road important to their way of life or their future prosperity. Of those early members was George Washington, a stakeholder in a company, who believed that easy travel to the western part of the......
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