In the 1880’s a 18B. Cambridge City Park 21. ZANE’S TRACE — On Peters Creek Road, huge coal boom made — Stroll through a across from Cassell Station. In 1796 Ebenezer Guernsey County a Covered Bridge while Zane won a commission from Congress to develop major producer. The following the walking trail a new gateway to the west. The Trace that he coal was shipped in the park. blazed followed the existing wild animal and from the mines in American Indian trails wherever possible. The bridle Guernsey County by 18C. Museums — trail, through the giant trees, wound its way from rail. Many mines were located in the surrounding • Cambridge Glass Museum - 812 Jefferson Ave., Wheeling, West Virginia to Limestone, Kentucky area. Cambridge, OH 43725, 740-432-3045 (present day Maysville). Along the Trace many A miner’s home still stands at this site. • Degenhart Paperweight & Glass Museum new settlements grew. PRIVATE RESIDENCE. The driveway running in 65323 Highland Hills Rd., Cambridge, OH 43725 In 1803 Ohio’s state legislature set aside money front of the house was the original route to Lore 740-432-2626 to make the Zane’s Trace accessible to wagons. City. Route 265, west of this site, now takes • Guernsey County Historical Museum - 218 N. 8th, The trees were cut to make it twenty feet wide. you to Lore City. The Scott Mine and the Klondyke Cambridge, OH 43725, 740-439-5884 Travelers began to refer to the road by different Mine are a few of the mines that were located • Hopalong Cassidy Museum - S.10th St., Antique names, including the Wheeling Road, the Wheeling- U.S. 40 along this route. Mall, Cambridge, OH 43725, 740-432-3364 Limestone Road, or just the Limestone Road rather (23.7 miles) • National Museum of Cambridge Glass - 136 S. 9th, than as Zane’s Trace. 17. SANTA ANNA, the Mexican General, was Cambridge, OH 43725, 740-432-4245 (A hiking trail will be developed along this portion Driving Tour Historic responsible for the fall of the Alamo. He was • Universal Pottery Exhibit - Penny Court of the Zane’s Trace.) later captured and taken by boat to New Orleans, 637 Wheeling Ave., Cambridge, OH, 740-432-4369 up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, then on the (A Walking Tour of Historic Cambridge brochure is Side Trip: Travel on the following roads - Oxford Ohio Guernsey County, Zane’s Trace to the Old National Road. As a available at the Cambridge/Guernsey County Visitors Road, Frankfort Road, Zane Road and Endley Road prisoner, on the way to Washington, D.C. to where sections of the Zane’s Trace ran. (Check & Convention Bureau, 627 Wheeling Ave., Cambridge, National Road stand trial, he stayed at McMurry Tavern in OH 43725, 1-800-933-5480.) map for locations.) 1836. (McMurry Tavern once stood at the site of (27.5 miles) (31.7 miles) Guernsey Memory Gardens.) 19. FAIRDALE TOLLHOUSE — Off U.S. 40 at 5988 22. BEST HILL ROAD — Off U.S. 40. Drive on Fairdale Rd. - This tollhouse was erected on the the Old National Road with a Civil War Veteran Long’s Motel (c. 1947) is on the north side of the Old National Road as a means of paying the crushing Oliver Barnett’s 1870’s farm house. The stone used National Road on your way into CAMBRIDGE. It expenses of creating this National public work. Four in the construction was quarried from the property is one of the few surviving U.S. 40 motels still in tollhouses were maintained in Guernsey County and and the lumber from trees nearby. This wooden , operation. the only survivor is this house is a fine example , Ohio (25.5 miles) tollhouse. The structure of a Victorian Italianate District 18. CAMBRIDGE HISTORIC DISTRICT — (platted has been altered over the residence along the Old 1806) The National Road carries you through National Road in years. U.S. 40 the center of the Historic Rates of toll were Guernsey County. It is District where you can still find determined by the amount listed on the National examples of 19th century of damage done to the Old Register of Historic architecture. The Guernsey National Road. Places. PRIVATE RESIDENCE. County Courthouse is in the A schedule in effect in 1832 follows: center of town with a marble Brief History of Guernsey History of Guernsey County Score of sheep or hogs, $ .05 23. DEVIL’S DIP is located a mile and a half east of A Civil War Soldiers’ Monument Score of cattle, $ .10 New Concord on the abandoned Old National Road. tories of Guernsey County S standing in front. The Soldiers’ Horse and rider, $ .04 It was so named because of a steep hill that 800-933-5480 Monument commemorates the Sulky drawn by one horse, $ .08 descended to the bottom with a curve and narrow 627 Wheeling Ave. patriotism, hardships and Chariot or coach, $ .12 ½ bridge. Primitive vehicles of the day and the design Convention Bureau Cambridge, Ohio 43725 sacrifices of those from Vehicle with wheels under four inches in width, $ .06 of the road caused more than one driver a “devilish Guernsey County, who answered the country’s experience” at Devil’s Dip. Vehicle with wheels exceeding six inches in width, free www.visitguernseycounty.com call in time of peril. Exceptions were granted to persons going and The tree shaded roadside valley was frequently 1 , Ohio For more information please contact: This designation was given by the U.S. Email: [email protected] intersection of Interstates 70 & 77. contain 660 miles of the National Road. Cambridge benefitted culturally and financially Cambridge/Guernsey County Visitors & coming to church, a funeral, a place of election, the host to gypsy caravans and homeless men in Guernsey County is situated between because of its location to nearby natural National Road places of business, to mill and to market. Clergymen the 1930’s. (This site is on private property.) Columbus, OH and Wheeling, WV at the Transportation Secretary to these six states which Secretary Transportation For more information about Guernsey County history please visit the Guernsey County County Ohio 191 Public Library, Finley Room, Cambridge, OH Public Library, Resources available include: Ohio File: Historic National Road, Guernsey County, (volunteers, text & photographs pamphlet Tour Driving Adams and Cambridge, from Oxford, Wills, Center, that contributed to this brochure) Twps. Westland Russell H., Booth, Jr., Sarchet, Col. C. P. B., Sarchet, Col. C. P. Wolfe, William G., William G., Wolfe, resources and routes of transportation. went through free, as did children on their way to (32.3 miles) Funding & Support for the preparation of this project provided by: • Cambridge Rotary Foundation Cambridge, OH • Colgate-Palmolive Company, • Guernsey County Community Development Corp. • U S Bank, Cambridge, Ohio • Peoples Bank, Cambridge, Ohio Emerita Professor of History, Lorle Porter, • Dr. Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio • Don Fairchild, Painting on Cover • Signage/Project Pride Research Committee 2004 and from school. A stage and horses carrying 24. STAGECOACH STOP — U.S. 40 & Morgan “All-American Road & National Scenic Byway” 18A. Viaduct Site - 5th & Wheeling Ave. United States mail were passed through free. Road. The William McDonald family owned this Wills Creek, the Zane’s Trace, the Old National PRIVATE RESIDENCE. home and ran the Fountain Pump Tavern. The tavern Road, the Railroad, U.S. 22 and U.S. 40 pass/ (29.7 miles) sat west of this home across Morgan Road. passed through this area. These routes of travel 20. PETER’S CREEK “S” BRIDGE — (Circa 1828) - PRIVATE RESIDENCE. made Cambridge and Guernsey County an Peter’s Creek “S” Bridge was built with well-cut important transportation center. sandstone and good mortar in the shape of an “S.” 24A. William McDonald was a contractor on the The first bridge, authorized by the Legislature Floods of traffic used this bridge on the Old National Old National Road. He was given a contract to of the Northwest Territory in 1801, was built at Road heading for the western frontier and the build a one mile section of (37.4 miles) this site of logs and had a puncheon floor. The eastern seaboard markets. the National Road through (33.8 miles) old bridge was succeeded by the covered bridge Cambridge on Wheeling in 1828 when the National Road was built. The 20A. The development and the Ave. from the Hutchison covered bridge was in turn succeeded by the history of transportation can be Tavern (National Hotel) is dedicated to the viaduct in 1925. seen from this location: west in 1827. According There is a monument located at this site by (1) Zane’s Trace (1796) was a to the provisions of McDonald’s contract, the road Dedicated to telling the the old Union Railroad Station erected by Anna path cut through the dense forest bed through Cambridge was to be twenty-four Asbury Stone Chapter, DAR (1926). Inscription in the Northwest Territory. See feet wide. The material used was broken limestone In 1840 the Good Intent Line reads: #21 for location. The engineer was Jonathan Knight. Twenty- “Near This Spot (2) The Old National Road (1828) five years later the same engineer was employed New Concord’s “S “ Bridge was The Old Covered Bridge over the “S” Bridge was the most important land for the construction of the Central Ohio (Baltimore Spanned Wills Creek route to the west. and Ohio) Railroad through this section. On the Old National Road carried mail and passengers along the Old William McDonald’s laborers were mostly Irish. (3) The Railroad (1850’s) replaced animal and foot was built in 1834 by Blacksmith Joseph 1828-1915 an 1828 “pike town,” is proud of its heritage Near It Was The Ferry Cabin power.