Tuesday, August 27, 2024

U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 15: From Little Savage Mountain)

 
That was then (1953)



Intro to chapter 15:
 The view wetware from the slope of Little Savage Mountain scarcely gives the impression that one is at an altitude of 2700 feet, and well toward the top of the Alleghenies.  The level-topped ridges rise only a few hundred feet above the general plateau-level and succeed one another at such even height that they hide the intervening valleys and produce the impression of level or gently rolling country.
 
This is now. 
 
Interstate 70 runs parallel to the south.  A 1962 Enco road map of the eastern United States shows that only two short stretches of I-70 have been completed: one between Columbus and Zanesville, Ohio, and a second bypassing Dayton, Ohio, to the north.



This location is approximately 150 miles northwest of Baltimore.
Photo by Retiring Guy: 1952 Rand McNally Road Atlas (arrow 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)
Chapter 12.  Mount Prospect.  (8/17/2024)
Chapter 13:  Ridge and Valley.  (8/18/2024)
Chapter 14:  The Narrows.  (8/19/2024)

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