Excerpt from The National Road: Most Historic Thoroughfare in the United States, and Strategic Eastern Link in the National Old Trails Ocean-to-Ocean Highway

Peter Cooper hauled the first train with Tom Thumb, the pioneer American locomotive. Later, when that railway became a large, wide spreading system, the route through Relay, Laurel and Washington was made its main line to and from the West.'

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