Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

 - Class of 1932

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of the Conemaugh, Allegheny, and Susquehanna Rivers; and in March of the same year. New York passed an act for the establishment of canals in the state. While Washington’s dream of waterways connecting the East and the West was never realized, his influence in the development of the West was far-reaching; for “He stood for a new system, a possession of the West that meant blessing to the possessor and to the possessed by commercial union. It was a pioneer idea, but in- stinct with genius, and Washington’s advocacy of it marked a new epoch in American history, and marked him as the first commercial American, the first man typical of the America to be.” WASHINGTON'S MILL On Washington Run, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, built 1774-75 IFrom Washington and the West by Archer B. Hulbcrt, used by permission of the Century Company] [15]

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Spectator not only because of the Mason-Dixon line, but because the Ten Mile Creek was im- passable, and did not come anywhere near the Little Kanawha At his tract of land near what is now Perryopolis, he arranged for a public sale of his lands in that vicinity. Here, too, he visited the mill which bears his name. This mill, erected for his agent, Gilbert Simpson, in 1774-75, by men obliged to live in block-houses as a protection against Indians, was one of the first mills west of the Alleghenies. While he was at Simpson’s, some squatters came to see him about buying the land upon which they had settled. They would not agree to his terms, so he took the case to law. In 1786. the Supreme Court at Washington, Penn- sylvania. returned a verdict in favor of Washington, who ejected the squatters. When Washington reached Beasontown, now Uniontown, Captain Benjamin Harding gave him a hopeful account of the passageway from the West Fork of the Monongahela to the Little Kanawha, assured him that the Cheat was navigable as far as Dunkard’s Bottom, and that a road led from that point across the mountains to the Potomac. Upon hearing this, Washington and his party visited the juncture of the Cheat and Monongahela Rivers, and from there followed the ridge between the rivers to the home of John Pierpont. near what is now Morgantown. Here he met General Zackwell Morgan, who told him of three roads from that point to the Potomac. From all the information which Washington had gained, he realized that the head- waters of the Potomac and the Ohio would have to be connected by road In order to explore one of these roads, he and his party returned to Mount Vernon by what was known as the New Road, leading past Fort Pendleton. This road Washington considered probably the best route for connecting the headwaters of the two rivers. When Washington was again settled in Mount Vernon, he wrote a summary of his explorations and drew up plans for a commercial union between the F.ast and the West. These he sent to Governor Harrison of Virginia. Harrison placed the plans before the Virginia Assembly, which passed a bill authorizing the forming of the Potomac Company by Virginia and Maryland. This was the first interstate cor- poration of the United States. The object of this company was to improve the Potomac, and to build a road from it to the nearest Western river. Washington was made president of the company, and prominent men of Virginia were the direc- tors. Subscriptions were begun in February of 1785, and four hundred and three shares totaling $200,000, were subscribed. In the interest of western expansion, Washington also wrote to Richard Henry Lee, President of Congress, urging governmental exploration of the West, and the building of a military road, with forts and soldiers, to protect the settlers and travel- ers from Indians. For nearly four years Washington devoted time, energy, and money to the development of this project; and as head of this great undertaking, he planned the work, and conducted much of the business. The activity of the Potomac Company gave impetus to internal improvements in other states. In 1792, Pennsylvania appropriated $100,000 for the improvement [14]



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A REPRODUCTION OF THE BIRTHPLACE OF WASHINGTON Now the house in old Virginia is finished and the nation begins to throng there. True, it is only a reproduction of the real home of Washington's birth, But to the American people it is a symbol, the home that gave us Washington.

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