The Great Wagon Road Map. Great Wagon Road Project Piedmont Trails The first map from the project, released in 2023, is shown to the right 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
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By Mark Anderson Moore, courtesy North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh 1751 Fry-Jefferson map depicting the Virginia Colony and surrounding provinces
European settlers began settling the Forks of the Yadkin area in the mid 1700s, following the Great Wagon Road south from Pennsylvania Map of The Great Wagon Road and its offshoots in North Carolina, 1750-1780 Jonathan Hager (1714-75), an immigrant from Westphalia, Germany, purchased 200 acres of land in Maryland—close to the Great Wagon Road—which he named Hager's Fancy.
The Great Wagon Road of the East Legends of America. The Great Wagon Road promoted migration south from the urban areas near Philadelphia to the backcountry of Maryland and Virginia, especially in the eighteenth century Numerous towns had been established along the Great Wagon Road by the 1790s, and by the early 1800s, county courts appointed overseers responsible for maintaining the various road segments.
map of The Great Wagon Road; 1700s route for passage to the frontier. 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. Map of The Great Wagon Road and its offshoots in North Carolina, 1750-1780