trans-appalachian

Updated: August 12, 2026

The inclined planes which carried the traffic across the mountains proved to be an expensive and cumbersome device, and because of a lack of better transportation facilities, the trade of Philadelphia and Baltimore suffered constant losses, and for a time it seemed that New York was destined to monopolize the entire commerce between the Atlantic coast and the trans-Appalachian region.

Thurman William Van Metre - Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States: 1789-1900