Why was the National Road built?
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The National Road was built with the intention of creating closer economic ties between the American west and the original thirteen colonies. At the time it was considered a state-of-the-art roadway. Its surfaces were graded to limit water damage and it was surfaced with gravel. Streams, rivers, and gullies were crossed with stone bridges, not the more common and less expensive wooden ones. Thousands of migrants moving westward to take advantage of new land and new economic opportunities used the National Road to move westward. It was the first major road to be built with federal funds and the largest single road-building project until the construction of the modern interstate highway system after World War II (1939Ð1945).
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