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The '''Great Valley Road''', also called in various parts the "Great Wagon Road," "Great Warriors' Path," "Valley Pike," "Carolina Road," or "Trading Path," was the most important Colonial American route for settlers of the mountainous back country of the southern British colonies. It went from [[Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] over to the Shenandoah Valley of [[Virginia Genealogy|Virginia]] forking into the [[Tennessee Genealogy|Tennessee]] Valley and Knoxville. The other fork went more south into the Piedmont Region of [[North Carolina Genealogy|North Carolina]], and then to its terminus on the Savannah River at Augusta, [[Georgia]]. From Philadelphia to Augusta was 735 miles (1183 km). Several other important early pathways merged with, or split off from the Great Valley Road.<ref name="DollarM">William Dollarhide, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38096564 Map Guide to American Migration Routes 1735-1815]'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1997)[{{FHL|973 E3d}}], 7 and 13.</ref> | The '''Great Valley Road''', also called in various parts the "Great Wagon Road," "Great Warriors' Path," "Valley Pike," "Carolina Road," or "Trading Path," was the most important Colonial American route for settlers of the mountainous back country of the southern British colonies. It went from [[Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] over to the Shenandoah Valley of [[Virginia, United States Genealogy|Virginia]] forking into the [[Tennessee, United States Genealogy|Tennessee]] Valley and Knoxville. The other fork went more south into the Piedmont Region of [[North Carolina, United States Genealogy|North Carolina]], and then to its terminus on the Savannah River at Augusta, [[Georgia]]. From Philadelphia to Augusta was 735 miles (1183 km). Several other important early pathways merged with, or split off from the Great Valley Road.<ref name="DollarM">William Dollarhide, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38096564 Map Guide to American Migration Routes 1735-1815]'' (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1997)[{{FHL|973 E3d}}], 7 and 13.</ref> | ||
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