PA-144 National Road

Marker text: NATIONAL ROAD
Our first national road; fathered by Albert Gallatin. Begun in 1811 at Cumberland, Md.; completed to Wheeling in 1818. Toll road under State control, 1835-1905. Rebuilt, it is present U.S. Route 40.

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1948

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Location: US 40 (westbound) past the Maryland state line, Somerset County, Pennsylvania

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