{"id":228845713,"date":"2012-04-02T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228845713"},"modified":"2012-04-02T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:15:13","slug":"hagerstown-officials-on-board-in-support-of-civil-war-railroad-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228845713","title":{"rendered":"Hagerstown officials on board in support of Civil War Railroad Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By C.J. LOVELACE, Herald-mail<br \/>\nHagerstown officials earlier this month joined the Washington County Board of Commissioners in support of a new biking and hiking trail that would connect Hagerstown\u2019s City Park to the Chesapeake &amp; Ohio Canal near the Potomac River.<br \/>\nThe pledge came after the five-member Hagerstown City Council heard a proposal March 6 to create a Civil War Railroad Trail, running 23.4 miles south to Weverton, Md.<br \/>\nDick Cushwa of the city\u2019s Bicycle Advisory Committee outlined the project, which would follow the former Baltimore &amp; Ohio Railroad line and ultimately connect to the 184.5-mile C&amp;O Canal.<br \/>\nThe proposed trail project would promote tourism, economic development and healthy lifestyle opportunities for city and county residents, Cushwa said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/news\/local\/hm-hagerstown-officials-on-board-in-support-of-civil-war-railroad-trail-20120316,0,6209358.story\">https:\/\/www.herald-mail.com\/news\/local\/hm-hagerstown-officials-on-board-in-support-of-civil-war-railroad-trail-20120316,0,6209358.story<\/a>oldId.20120402161513426<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C.J. LOVELACE, Herald-mail Hagerstown officials earlier this month joined the Washington County Board of Commissioners in support of a new biking and hiking trail that would connect Hagerstown\u2019s City Park to the Chesapeake &amp; Ohio Canal near the Potomac River. The pledge came after the five-member Hagerstown City Council heard a proposal March 6 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=228845713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hagerstown officials on board in support of Civil War Railroad Trail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228845713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-paths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228845713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228845713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228845713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228845713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228845713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228845713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}