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Conference Dates:  April 22-23, 1995
Conference Title:  Pathways to American Culture--A Conference on Transportation
Community and Settlement Patterns
 
    A national conference on transportation choices, community, and settlement
patterns will examine structures:  turnpikes, railroads, waterways, modern
highways, and commuter trains; events:  the building of the Cumberland Road and
the Pittsburgh Railroad complex during the century, the evolution of the Navajo
Trail into a highway to Los Angeles, the technical and ecological impact of
channeling a Louisiana delta river, and the impact on a Maryland town of the
demise of the B & O; and issues:  the losses and gains from the internal
improvements movement, the constructive and destructive effects of transportat-
ion changes on a rural Illinois community, and the fate of rational planning in
 the face of private economic and local interests.
    These key areas of transportation history will be approached from the
fields of social history, political and economic history, the history of tech-
nology, environmental history, and national and local policy studies.  Path-
ways will conclude with a panel on the use of history by national parks,
heritage corridors, and projects documenting historic engineering structures.
    The Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at
West Virginia University is sponsoring this two day conference.  Speakers
include John Mack Faragher of Yale University, John Lauritz Larson of Purdue
University, Arthur Gomez of the National Park Service, Sante Fe, New Mexico,
Billy Joe Peyton and Michal McMahon of West Virginia University, Todd Shallat
of Boise State, Richard Love of the University of Virginia, Mark Samber of
Carnegie-Mellon University, and Alan Comp of America's Industrial Heritage
Project, Johnstown, PA.  Pathways is being held in Wheeling, WV, terminus of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Cumberland Road, and site of such
historic structures as the Ellet-Roebling suspension bridge.  For information,
contact Michal McMahon, Department of History, West Virginia University,
Woodburn Hall 202, Morgantown, WV 26506-6303.  Ph. (304) 293-2421, ext. 5242;
E-mail:  [log in to unmask]
Larry N. Sypolt
Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26505-6305
Phone: (304) 293-3704     Fax: (304) 293-2449
Internet: [log in to unmask]
Bitnet: LSYPOLT@wvnvm