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On the recordJanuary 30, 1821
...authorizing the location of a road from Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, to a point on the left bank of the Mississippi River between St. Louis and the mouth of the Illinois River...
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James Monroe
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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