Roads and Turnpikes!
One of the most popular kinds of roads was known as a turnpike. This was a road where the person using the road had to pay a toll. It was named after a revolving barrier with spikes that had been used in England to prevent horses from passing through it. The first turnpike was built during George Washington's second term. This turnpike was called the Lancaster turnpike, and it began a lot of the turnpike building in New England and the Middle States. The turnpike building kept on going on until about 1825. Most of them were built by private companies, although state and local government sometimes helped. Farmer generally did not use them because of the high toll fee because they had so much to carry. In 1802 and 1803 Congress voted to use some money to create a national road through the mountains across Ohio. This was the most important federal transportation project at the time, and it took half a century to build. They began building it in 1811. It was a necessary wagon highway to the West. The majority of the roads were very bumpy with many foot high stumps. Most of the Americans at the time lived on farms, so they were isolated without the roads.
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