Casselman's Bridge (aka Castleman's River Bridge) - Grantsville, Maryland
The Casselman Bridge (aka Castleman's Bridge) is an historic transportation structure located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of Grantsville in Garrett County, Maryland. The bridge was built to carry the National Road across the Casselman River. Historic markers posted at each end read:
Erected 1813 by David Shriver, Jr.,
Sup't of the Cumberland Road (The
National Road). This 80 foot span
was the largest stone arch in America
at the time. It was continuously
used from 1813 to 1933.
Since 1957, the structure, which has also been known as Casselmans Bridge, Castleman's Bridge, and Little Crossings Bridge, has been preserved by the state of Maryland as Casselman River Bridge State Park. The bridge was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and placed on the National Historic Register in 1966.
The 354-foot-long (108 m) stone arch bridge spans 48 feet (15 m) with a 30-foot-high (9.1 m) arch. The bridge was constructed in 1813-1814 to aid in the westward movement through the frontier wilderness west of Cumberland, Maryland. The first wheeled vehicles crossed the bridge in 1815. As a tidal wave of western expansion followed the opening of the National Road, Casselman Bridge had heavy traffic that included wagons drawn by 12-horse teams and carrying 10-ton loads. A small portion of the original National Road still exists at the approaches to the bridge.
The bridge was strengthened for motorized traffic in 1911 and continued in service as a highway until 1933, when a modern steel span was built nearby to serve what is now US Route 40 Alternate. In the 1940s and early 1950s, efforts were made to preserve the bridge when sections started to crumble and fall apart. The bridge was closed to vehicles in 1953 and partially restored by the state in the mid-1950s. Additional maintenance occurred in 1979, 1996, 2002, and 2012.
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Casselman Bridge - 80 Foot Stone Arch Span - Historical National Landmark - 1813
Located in Garrett County and or Grantsville, Maryland today....
off Interstate 68 Grantsville or Route 219 Exit.........
It is obvious the bridge was designed for large boat traffic in the original design and a future canal was probably part of the design. Garrett County was known for its abundance of coal in the early 19th Century. FYI ....The National Road was the First Federal Funded Highway Project..The 307-foot-long stone arch bridge spans 80 feet and bridge is 47-foot-high from the foundation to the top of hall above the arch / The bridge construction began in late 1813 and proceeded through the summer of 1814 despite several delays due to increased rains. On November 16, 1814, workers successfully turned the largest and we think the most permanent stone arch in the United States. Shortly thereafter, William Aull received a contract for filling the bridge with rubble stone. By 1815, the fill had been deposited and settled sufficiently to allow the first wheeled vehicles across the bridge. Little Crossings Bridge remained in use until the end of the 19th century when it fell into a state of disrepair. After being fully restored in 1911 for automobile and truck traffic, it continued in service until 1933 when a steel truss bridge was erected nearby for newly-aligned U.S. 40. In its 118 years of service, countless freight and passenger vehicles, pedestrians, and livestock crossed Little Crossings Bridge on America's first federally-funded and built highway. In recognition of its outstanding contributions to our nation's heritage, Little Crossings Bridge was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963. It is owned by the State of Maryland and preserved as part of the Casselman Bridge State Park.
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Drone footage from Trip To Mt. Davis PA / Casselmann Inn / Grantsville, MD / DJI Mavic Air
Drone swag at Mt Davis
DJI Mavic Air
Frametown, WV to Grantsville, MD in Three Minutes
This time lapse is slightly diferent than the other's because I recorded it as fast as the Lapse It app would let me, 1 frame per 1 second. I like the way this one looks becuase its less of a blur and a little easier to see stuff. It covers about 150 miles of the west side of the Appalachian Mountains from Frametown, WV to Grantsville, MD. I traveled on I-79 and I-68 in West Virginia and Maryland. It was produced with Windows Movie Maker. Music is Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere.
I recorded 2 differernt time lapses this day. The first was about 2000 frames from the driver's window. I didn't like the way this was turning out. The second was about 4500 from the usual spot, the base of the front windshield. The second recording was cut short because Lapse It started bugging and freezing my HTC Evo. I eventually had to force close Lapse It. When I uploaded the photos, at about the 5100th frame (720x480) the frames started gradually duplicating/skipping. By the time I closed the app, it was duplicating/skipping 8-10 frames at a time. It was probably a memory issue. The second recording, that I made the above video with, ended up with 3276 useable frames. They say, if you never crash your bike, you never went fast enough :D
Postcard from Garrett County, MD (Storm Jonas)
Garrett County, MD during winter Storm Jonas 2016. Prior to the actual storm we had a system move through that dropped around 5. I started filming on Thursday during the first snowfall and then Friday and Saturday traveled on roads that were (somewhat) open to film the area and the 40 of snowfall Jonas brought us.
Filmed mostly with a Canon 5D Mark III, being that my other cameras aren't weather sealed. The few slow motion shots (96fps) were shot before the real storm started on a GH4. All the video was shot at 30fps and conformed to 24 for a little slow down and cinematic motion. Shot on a Canon 24-70F/4 and a Canon 70-200F/4.
National Road | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
National Road
00:01:27 1 History
00:01:35 1.1 Braddock Road
00:02:30 1.2 Cumberland Road
00:04:02 1.3 Westward extension
00:04:57 1.4 Transfer to states
00:06:14 1.5 Subsequent events
00:07:48 1.6 Historical structures
00:09:21 2 Route description
00:13:15 3 Historic designations
00:15:30 4 See also
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The National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road) was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, the 620-mile (1,000 km) road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was a main transport path to the West for thousands of settlers. When rebuilt in the 1830s, it became the second U.S. road surfaced with the macadam process pioneered by Scotsman John Loudon McAdam.Construction began heading west in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, on the Potomac River. After the Financial Panic of 1837 and the resulting economic depression, congressional funding ran dry and construction was stopped at Vandalia, Illinois, the then capital of the Illinois, 63 miles (101 km) northeast of St. Louis across the Mississippi River.
The road has also been referred to as the Cumberland Turnpike, the Cumberland–Brownsville Turnpike (or Road or Pike), the Cumberland Pike, the National Pike, and the National Turnpike.Today, much of the alignment is followed by U.S. Route 40, with various portions bearing the Alternate U.S. Route 40 designation, or various state-road numbers (such as Maryland Route 144 for several sections between Baltimore and Cumberland).
In 2002, the full road, including extensions east to Baltimore and west to St. Louis, was designated the Historic National Road, an All-American Road.