Historic Garrett County Stone Bridge Celebrates 200th Birthday
Casselman Bridge in historic postcard
In 1755, George Washington and colonial troops forded the Casselman River in western Maryland to battle the French in southwest Pennsylvania, a key battleground in the French and Indian War.
Washington was not the only one to realize the best place to cross the river to head west. For thousands of years, Native Americans settled in the area known as “Little Crossing.” In the early 1800s, following Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase that opened up the new West, the government built a bridge as part of the first federally funded road in the United States, the National Road. More