Frederick Historic Transportation Forum Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 4:00–5:15 p.m. Walking Tour 5:15 p.m. Reception Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center 40 S. Carroll St. Frederick, MD 21701 Forum Attendance $15 Optional Light Lunch $8 Register Now! A Transportation Celebration Frederick, From Crossroads to Hub Through the Frederick region pass some of the most historic transportation routes in the nation. They began with major Native American trails, one of which became the Colonial era Carolina Road. New roads followed, including the National Pike that became an essential part of the country’s first well-built trans-Appalachian road to our western lands. A product of the great canal era, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal carried supplies to the Frederick region and its products down to the wharfs in the federal district into the early 20th Century. And the mainline of the B&O Railroad—a company that virtually invented American railroading as our first common carrier railroad—reached Frederick by 1831. In this unique forum, four experts in the dramatic history of the region’s transportation routes focus on the challenges to travel in Frederick County during periods of both war and peace. Program 9:00–9:30 am Registration 9:30–9:40 am Welcome Mayor Randy McClement 9:40–10:00 am Current Transportation Planning issues Tim Davis, Transportation Planner 10:00–10:45 am Difficulties Made Easy: History of Travel Routes Between Frederick and Baltimore Lorna Hainesworth, National Road Ambassador 10:50–11:35 am Uncertain and Precarious: C&O Canal Navigation at the Beginning of the Civil War Tim Snyder, Civil War Historian 11:35 am–1:00 pm Lunch 1:05–1:50 pm Certificates of Freedom to Jim Crow Laws: African Americans & Restrictions on Transportation Dean Herrin, National Park Service Historian 1:55–2:40 pm Baltimore & Ohio Railroad during the Civil War Dave Shackelford, Chief Curator, B&O Railroad Museum 2:45–3:15 pm Coffee Break 3:20–4:00 pm Panel Discussion and Q&A Jay Driskell, Hood College 4:00–5:15 pm Walking Tour of Historic District 5:15–6:15 pm Reception at Frederick Visitor Center For more information, or to register, please go to http://www.candocanal.org/2012forum.html. -- Mary K. Mannix Maryland Room Manager C. Burr Artz Public Library Frederick County Public Libraries Frederick, MD