What is the significance of cumberland, maryland? it was where the nation's original capital was. it was where the first national road started. it was where the first canals were built to increase water-travel. it was the first place samuel morse could send messages to over electri telegraph wires.

By the mid nineteenth century, the wild of the Ohio nation had offered approach to settlement. The street George Washington had cut through the timberland numerous prior years, called the Braddock Road, was supplanted by the National Road.

Cutting an around 820-mile long way through the conditions of Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, it was built somewhere in the range of 1811 and 1834 and was the first federally funded road in U.S. history.

The two Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson trusted that a trans-Appalachian street was fundamental for binding together the youthful nation. On March 29, 1806, Congress approved development of the road and President Thomas Jefferson signed the act establishing what was first considered the Cumberland Road that would connect Cumberland, Maryland to the Ohio River.