National Road Association
The National Road is America's first federally funded interstate highway. The history of the Road itself, the planning, construction and politics has been well documented over the last 200 years. The grand purpose of the Cumberland Road Project, instead, is to document the history of the people, families, businesses, towns and cities that grew alongside. For more information on the Cumberland Road Project click here and for additional information on the National Road Assoication click here.
Teutopolis National Road History - On November 21, 1912 a field representative of the National Old Trail Roads Ocean to Ocean Highway Association met with business people in Teutopolis and proposed the great highway which would connect the towns. February 13, 1919, the National Road was surveyed between Effingham and Teutopolis. Work on the National Road began in August of 1919 and was open in December of that year, although it was still worked on until 1936. For excerpts taken from the Teutopolis Press from 1912 to 1960 click here.