U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 12: Mount Prospect)

 

That was then (1953)

Intro to chapter 12:

Mount Prospect, 201 West Washington Street, in Hagerstown, Maryland, was built in 1789 by Nathaniel Rochester, who had served in the Revolution as a paymaster.  His name is widely knowns because he because at a later date he founded Rochester, New York.  His Hagerstown residency proves Colonel Rochester to have been a man of taste, and it is as handsome a historic structure as anywhere faces the three-thousand-mile course of U.S. 40.

 

This is now.   Mount Prospect was demolished in the mid-1950s.  You can read more about the residence here.

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 Hagerstown is 75 miles northwest of Baltimore.

Photo by Retiring Guy: 1952 Rand McNally Road Atlas (highlight added)

Related post:

Chapter 1:  Beginnings.  (7/19/2024)

Chapter 2:  Coastal Plain.  (7/20/2024)

Chapter 5.  Six-Lane Highway.  (8/4/2024)

Chapter 6.  Bush River.  (8/5/2024)

Chapter 7:  Baltimore rows.  (8/6/2024)

Chapter 8:  Ellicott City.  (8/7/2024)

Chapter 9.  Frederick.  (8/8/2024)

Chapter 11.  Horrible example.  (8/16/2024)