The Great Wagon Road Map. The Great Wagon Road part 1 Flooding South Moving North Carolina The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States, particularly the "backcountry".Although a wide variety of settlers traveled southward on the road, two dominant cultures emerged. Northern colonists searching for farmland began traveling the road in the 1720s, and thousands others followed suit during the mid-eighteenth century
The Great Wagon Road of the East Legends of America from www.legendsofamerica.com
It clearly demonstrates the original route of the Great Wagon Road in accordance with our in-depth research beginning in Pennsylvania and traveling to North Carolina by the 1740 decade. It accurately depicts the Allegeny Mountains and shows the route of "The Great Road from the Yadkin River thro Virginia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles" -- what would come to be known as the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road
The Great Wagon Road of the East Legends of America
The assumption was that our earliest immigrant ancestors were limited to the waterways which accessed the coast and an occasional Indian path. The Great Wagon Road (1731 to 1800) This map project on the Roads and Trails of Colonial America started by questioning what routes the immigrant ancestors used during their southern and western migrations The first map from the project, released in 2023, is shown to the right
Great Wagon Road May Family. 1751 Fry-Jefferson map depicting the Virginia Colony and surrounding provinces Northern colonists searching for farmland began traveling the road in the 1720s, and thousands others followed suit during the mid-eighteenth century
Index. The map, drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson's father) in 1751, was the first to show "The Great Road from the Yadkin River thro Virginia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles" -- what would come to be known as the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road or just the Great Wagon Road The Great Wagon Road was the key supply line to the American resistance during the American Revolution, especially in the South