Front Page Opening Appalachia 21 Sep 202317 May 2024 Highway 50's route from the Potomac basin into Appalachia follows the course of one of America's oldest formal wilderness roads, the Northwest Turnpike. Following a rare east-west trace transecting the…
Front Page Hillbilly and Race in the Queen City 21 Sep 202313 Mar 2025 The next city Highway 50 meets heading westward is Cincinnati, Ohio, coined "the queen city" for its sublime features since at least 1819. Highway 50's course through Cincinnati mostly clings…
Front Page Outlaw Moonshiners vs. the Ku Klux Klan 21 Sep 20234 Nov 2023 Highway 50 leaves Cincinnati along the course of the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, the westernmost branch of the eastern railroad network at the time of its creation in 1857. This…