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Great Wagon Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Great Wagon Road was a colonial American thoroughfare from Pennsylvania to North Carolina and from there to Georgia. It was the heavily traveled main route for settlement of the Southern United ...
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This map shows the three major branches of the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road as follows: ... 1) The Great Valley Road. ... 2) The Upper Road.
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As it had been done in Pennsylvania, the Great Wagon Road in the Carolinas and Virginia forced the Indians to move futher westward. Riding along the Great Wagon Road in the decade before the Ameriacn Revolution, visitors from Europe expressed amazement at the rapid growth of the interior.
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THE GREAT WAGON ROAD ... Including THE GREAT VALLEY ROAD Hordes of early German and Scotch-Irish settlers used what became known as the Great Wagon Road to move from Pennsylvania southward through the Shenandoah Valley through Virginia and the Carolinas to Georgia, a distance of about 800 miles.
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A Lesson Plans Page lesson plan, lesson idea, thematic unit, or activity in Social Studies and Art called The Great Wagon Road. ... Printable Version for your convenience! Title - The Great Wagon Road ; By - Rebecca Lakes ; Primary Subject - Social Studies ; Secondary Subjects - Art ; Grade Level - 5 ;
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Andrew Pickens was born in Pennsylvania on September 19, 1739. Like other Scots-Irish(29) his family moved south, traveling the Great Wagon Road,(30) in search of new land.
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The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South; This book is great for those interested in genealogy and tracing their ancestry from the early 1700's in the PA/MD/DE area to the Carolinas. I often wondered why they took the route they did from the eastern seaboard into South Carolina.
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The map above, 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.
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