NATIONAL ROAD, you may make go rou...

NATIONAL ROAD, you may make go round 200 next week but you barely contemplate a day over, say, 102

The National Road, the first federal road from Baltimore, Md to Vandalia was the Interstate highway of its day, attracting a division of walkers, horse-drawn carriages and freight wagons.

The National Road Association of Illinois is throwing a birthday party for the road from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday in Vandalia at the of long date State Capitol.

Jerry turn executive director of the association, said an federal and state officials will be speaking, there will be a short re-enactment of the surveying of the original road and a certain number of updates on what is going onward along the road.

The association was formed in 1997 to forward the entire historic road by means of Illinois, including the part that intersects through Madison County.

"We're trying to use connections to the road as an economic unravelling ...