Announcement


The Turkey Foot Road material is being revised into a different format. At least for the time being, only selected reviewers have access to it.

How you can help with the ongoing research

If you can help with any of the following, please forward the information by e-mail to L. Dietle.

  • Need the help of a surveyor who understands metes and bounds to help to interpret a 1948 property line in order to determine where Jonathan Arnold’s place was located.
  • Need to obtain a copy of George Washington’s map from his September, 1784 trip; it is printed in some old book. He went on the Turkey Foot Road, and he may have included that on his map.
  • Where did Joshua Fry die; on his way to, or at, Wills Creek/Fort Cumberland?
  • What source indicates that Fry was buried in a now-unmarked grave in Cumberland’s Rose Hill Cemetery?
  • What happened to the Twightwee/Miami Indians during the French and Indian War?
  • Where is the order telling Captain Clinton to cut a road? Did it possibly survive in the Pennsylvania Archives?
  • What does page 35 of the 1969 “The Casselman chronicle, Volumes 9-17” say About the Turkeyfoot path?
  • Does page 83 of the 1934 “Pennsylvania archaeologist, Volumes 4-8” say anything about the Turkey Foot Trail, other than it passed over Negro Mountain?
  • Where is the cemetery east of Salisbury that Wallace mentions?
  • Is the Turkey Foot Road shown on any other property plats or road surveys?
  • Is the Turkey Foot Road described in any Pennsylvania legislative acts?
  • When was Archibald Arnold born, and from that, how early could he have settled in the present-day Mount Savage area? What is the earliest record of Archibald Arnold living in the Mount Savage area?
  • There is apparently a Mount Savage area tradition that the Turkey Foot Road started out as an Indian trail. What is the earliest written version on that tradition?
  • We need copies of early Allegany County Maryland maps that may show the Turkey Foot Road.
  • Why did Lieutenant Spendelow build his road up the east side of Wills Creek; why not the west side? What does the terrain tell us?
  • What is the basis for the "Legislative Road" name for the road between Barrelville and Corriganville?
  • We need proof that Archibald Arnold once owned the Bear Camp tract.
  • We need photos of the Robinson’s stone house near Barrelville.
  • We need photos of photos of Arnold’s brick house near Mount Savage.
  • What do Paul A. W. Wallace’s "Turkeyfoot Road, 1961-1962" papers say about the Turkey Foot Trail? They are located in Box 16 of the Wallace papers at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg.

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