Editing Allegany County, Maryland (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:2019-07-14 12 10 53 View west along Interstate 68 and U.S. Route 40 (National Freeway) from the overpass for Maryland State Route 948 (Mountain Road Northeast) in Pratt, Allegany County, Maryland.jpg|thumb|right|I-68 and US 40 in Allegany County]]
Allegany County has been, since colonial times, an important node on the nation's transportation network as a key transition point in the movement of goods and people to and from the ports of the Mid-Atlantic and the agricultural and industrial production centers of the Ohio Valley and Midwest. The Cumberland Narrows, a naturally-occurring watergap separating Wills and Haystack Mountains, serves as one of the few passages through what is otherwise one of the steepest rushes of the Ridge and Valley province. Because of this, Cumberland has been the site of both planned and completed transportation projects focused on connecting east and west.

On his fateful march from [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]] to [[Fort Duquesne]] in modern-day [[Pittsburgh]] during the [[French and Indian War]], British General [[Edward Braddock]] and his men, including then-Lieutenant Colonel and Braddock's aide-de-camp [[George Washington]], carved a road, closely following the Native American [[Nemacolin's Path]], from the British encampment at [[Fort Cumberland (Maryland)|Fort Cumberland]], through the Allegheny Mountains all the way to Fort Duquesne.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.historynet.com/braddocks-defeat-1755-french-indian-war.htm|title=Braddock's Defeat, 1755: French and Indian War|last=JessJuanDring says|date=February 7, 2017|website=HistoryNet|language=en-US|access-date=May 5, 2019}}</ref> This road, known in early America as [[Braddock Road (Braddock expedition)|Braddock's Road]], became the guidelines for the earliest sections of the Cumberland Road, or what later became known as the [[National Road]]. Specifically, the section on Braddock's Road from Cumberland to [[Uniontown, Pennsylvania]] was followed nearly exactly in the early construction of the National Road.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/fone/learn/historyculture/nationalroad.htm |title=The National Road - Fort Necessity National Battlefield |publisher=U.S. National Park Service) |language=en |access-date=May 5, 2019}}</ref> A monument to the start of the National Road now stands on Greene Street in Cumberland, very near the spot Braddock and his men began their expedition.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.canaltrust.org/pyv/national-road-and-monument/|title=National Road and Monument|website=C&O Canal Trust|language=en-US|access-date=May 5, 2019}}</ref>

In modern times, Allegany County is an important regional crossroads. It is crossed from east to west by [[Interstate 68]] and [[U.S. Route 40 in Maryland|US Route 40]], and from north to south by [[U.S. Route 220 in Maryland|US Route 220]], which from Cumberland to the [[Mason–Dixon line]] is part of the Appalachian Development Highway System's [[Corridor O]].

===Major highways===
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* [[File:I-68.svg|20px]] [[Interstate 68 (Maryland)|Interstate 68]]
* [[File:US 40.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 40 in Maryland|U.S. Route 40]]
* [[File:Alt plate.svg|20px]]<br />[[File:US 40.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 40 Alternate (Keyser's Ridge-Cumberland)|US 40 Alt.]]
* [[File:Scenic plate.svg|20px]]<br />[[File:US 40.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 40 Scenic]]
* [[File:US 220.svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 220 (Maryland)|U.S. Route 220]]
* [[File:MD Route 35.svg|20px]] [[Maryland Route 35]]
* [[File:MD Route 36.svg|20px]] [[Maryland Route 36]]
* [[File:MD Route 47.svg|20px]] [[Maryland Route 47]]
* [[File:MD Route 49.svg|20px]] [[Maryland Route 49]]
* [[File:MD Route 51.svg|20px]] [[Maryland Route 51]]
* [[File:MD Route 53.svg|20px]] [[Maryland Route 53]]
* [[File:MD Route 55.svg|20px]] [[Maryland Route 55]]
* [[File:MD Route 135.svg|25px]] [[Maryland Route 135]]
* [[File:MD Route 144.svg|25px]] [[Maryland Route 144]]
* [[File:MD Route 638.svg|25px]] [[Maryland Route 638]]
* [[File:MD Route 657.svg|25px]] [[Maryland Route 657]]
* [[File:MD Route 658.svg|25px]] [[Maryland Route 658]]
* [[File:MD Route 935.svg|25px]] [[Maryland Route 935]]
* [[File:MD Route 936.svg|25px]] [[Maryland Route 936]]
* [[File:MD Route 956.svg|25px]] [[Maryland Route 956]]
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===Rail===
* [[Amtrak]]
* [[Western Maryland Scenic Railroad]]

===Public transportation===
* [[Allegany County Transit]]