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We all know the Oregon Trail and its history as it relates to the United States history but there was another trail called The Great Wagon Road. It effected early Americans' progress going West and South. It started in Philadelphia and traveled west and then south.
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The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road, also called the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States.
Stretching for 800 miles, the road began in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, crossed westward to Gettysburg, turned south to Hagerstown, Maryland, and entered the Shenandoah Valley near present-day Martinsburg, West Virginia. The path then continued south to Winchester, Virginia, through the 200-mile length of the Shenandoah Valley to Roanoke. Through here, the road was known as the Valley Pike and followed the earlier established Great Warrior’s Trail. The Wilderness Road branched off from the Great Wagon Road at Roanoke and crossed through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and Tennessee. The road then passed through the Roanoke River Gap to the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains into North Carolina. Here, it was called the Carolina Road. It then continued south to Rock Hill, South Carolina, where it branched into two routes to Augusta and Savannah, Georgia.
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The Great Wagon Road was an improved trail through the Great Appalachian Valley from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and from there to Georgia in colonial America.
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. The German Palatines and Scotch-Irish immigrants arrived in huge numbers because of bloody religious conflicts and persecution of Protestants by monarchies in Great Britain and Europe. The mostly Protestant German Palatines (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch) tended to find rich farmland and work it zealously to become stable and prosperous. The other group, mostly Protestant Presbyterians known as Scotch-Irish) tended to be restless, clannish, fiercely independent, and hosted a centuries old animosity to the British Crown. The Scotch-Irish made up a substantial portion of the Continental Army and the state militia in the American War of Independence. They went on to form what became the backbone of Appalachian Culture. Partly because of the language difference, the two groups tended to keep to themselves
The Great Wagon Road of the East – Legends of America
The Great Wagon Road, also called the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States.
www.legendsofamerica.com
The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road, also called the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States.
Stretching for 800 miles, the road began in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, crossed westward to Gettysburg, turned south to Hagerstown, Maryland, and entered the Shenandoah Valley near present-day Martinsburg, West Virginia. The path then continued south to Winchester, Virginia, through the 200-mile length of the Shenandoah Valley to Roanoke. Through here, the road was known as the Valley Pike and followed the earlier established Great Warrior’s Trail. The Wilderness Road branched off from the Great Wagon Road at Roanoke and crossed through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and Tennessee. The road then passed through the Roanoke River Gap to the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains into North Carolina. Here, it was called the Carolina Road. It then continued south to Rock Hill, South Carolina, where it branched into two routes to Augusta and Savannah, Georgia.
Great Wagon Road - Wikipedia
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The Great Wagon Road was an improved trail through the Great Appalachian Valley from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and from there to Georgia in colonial America.
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. The German Palatines and Scotch-Irish immigrants arrived in huge numbers because of bloody religious conflicts and persecution of Protestants by monarchies in Great Britain and Europe. The mostly Protestant German Palatines (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch) tended to find rich farmland and work it zealously to become stable and prosperous. The other group, mostly Protestant Presbyterians known as Scotch-Irish) tended to be restless, clannish, fiercely independent, and hosted a centuries old animosity to the British Crown. The Scotch-Irish made up a substantial portion of the Continental Army and the state militia in the American War of Independence. They went on to form what became the backbone of Appalachian Culture. Partly because of the language difference, the two groups tended to keep to themselves
