The National Road with Brady Crytzer (Saturday program)

September 19, 2026
1:00pm - 3:30pm

In partnership with Wheeling Heritage, the Fort Henry Chapter of the S.A.R., and the Wheeling D.A.R., author Brady Crytzer will discuss his new book, "The National Road: George Washington and America's First Highway West." The book is the first narrative history of the federal project—begun decades before the nation itself was born and ranging through the 1830s—that connected the United States across the Alleghenies and into the western frontier. Starting with a young Washington’s dream of uniting the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, historian Crytzer traces the political rivalries and engineering marvels that created an artery bringing settlers, ideas, and commerce deep into the American interior.