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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.

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Great Wagon Road

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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...

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Great Sierra Wagon Road

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The Great Sierra Wagon Road was a route through the Sierra Nevada in California, built to bring supplies to the Great Sierra Mine on Tioga Hill in the...

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Covered wagon

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Appalachian valleys and along the Great Wagon Road. It was too heavy for use west of the Mississippi River; the westward wagons were lighter, and more angular...

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Wagon

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Conestoga wagon was a predominant form of freight wagon in the late 18th and 19th centuries, often used for hauling goods on the Great Wagon Road in the...

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Wilderness Road

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Settlers from Pennsylvania tended to migrate south along the Great Wagon Road through the Great Appalachian Valley and Shenandoah Valley. Daniel Boone was...

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Great Appalachian Valley

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along the Great Wagon Road, which began in Philadelphia. In the Shenandoah Valley, the road was known as the Valley Pike. The Wilderness Road branched...

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Cariboo Road

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The Cariboo Road (also called the Cariboo Wagon Road, the Great North Road or the Queen's Highway) was a project initiated in 1860 by the Governor of the...

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Conestoga wagon

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similarities in usage of white hemp cloths to cover the wagons, large wheels to travel on non-macadam road surfaces, and intended usage as vehicles to transport...

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Great Road

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commemorating the former road Great Wagon Road, a historic road from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in the United States Great Road (Appalachia), another...

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Carolina Road

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Road or the "Old Carolina Road" are names for various sections of the Great Wagon Road and other routes in colonial America. "The 'Old Carolina Road'...

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Historic trails and roads in the United States

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Missouri to California. Carolina Road from Roanoke, Virginia, on the Great Wagon Road through the Piedmont to Augusta, Georgia. Cherokee Trail along the...

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Oregon Trail

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The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri...

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Peter Jefferson

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"The Great Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles"—what would later come to be known as the Great Wagon Road. Jefferson...

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Great Indian Warpath

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passing a branch of the Indian trail what would later be called the Great Wagon Road in what would eventually be Henry County, Virginia, that "The Indians...

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Shenandoah Valley

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County. The Great Wagon Road (later called the Valley Pike or Valley Turnpike) began as the Great Warriors Trail or Indian Road, a Native road through common...

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Appalachia

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University of Alabama Press, 2005), p. 17. Rouse, Parke Jr. (1992). The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South (1st ed.). Dietz Press. ISBN 978-0875170657...

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Humboldt Wagon Road

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The Humboldt Wagon Road, or the Humboldt Road, was a freight wagon road in northern California. Constructed in the 1860s, it connected Chico, near the...

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Rollins Pass

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Places to include achievements made by John Q.A. Rollins and his toll wagon road that traversed the pass. In 2012, Rollins Pass was listed as one of the...

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Scottish Lowlands

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August 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023. Rouse, Parke Jr. (1992). The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South (1st ed.). Dietz Press. ISBN 978-0875170657...

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Shenandoah Germans

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German settlers traveled southward along what became known as the Great Wagon Road. They were descendants of German, Swiss, and Alsatian Protestants who...

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Ulster Scots people

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UlsterScotsTrail.com. Fischer (1989), p. 606. Rouse, Parke S. Jr. (2004). The Great Wagon Road. Dietz Press. p. 32. Leyburn, James G. (1962). The Scotch-Irish: A...

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