Fort Moore-Charleston Trail: Difference between revisions

''[[United States Genealogy|United States]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[United States Migration Internal|Migration]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[US Migration Trails and Roads|Trails and Roads]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Fort_Moore-Charleston_Trail|Fort Moore-Charleston Trail]]''

[[Image:Fort Moore-Charleston Trail.png|border|right|380px]]The '''Fort Moore-Charleston Trail''' connected the colonial [[South Carolina Genealogy|South Carolina]] seaport of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina Charleston] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_Town,_South_Carolina Fort Moore] guarding trade on the South Carolina side of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_River Savannah River] across from [[Georgia]]'s subsequent colony of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia Augusta]. Charleston was the largest European settlement in South Carolina, its capital, its main trade connection to Europe, on the [[King's Highway|King's Highway]], and the start of several other trails. In 1716 Fort Moore was completed at the site of an Indian village that became the important fur trading center of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_Town,_South_Carolina Savannah Town] (New Windsor Township after 1737), the primary pelt trading center with Charleston. The Fort-Moore-Charleston trail likely opened at that time. Many other trails also converged on this town just below the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_line fall line], and later on the town of Augusta across the river in Georgia. The Fort Moore-Charleston Trail began in [[Charleston County, South Carolina]] and ended in [[Aiken County, South Carolina]]. The length of the trail was about 144 miles (232 km).<ref name="HBG">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.'' (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 849. ({{FHL|1049485|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 2002}}). [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140092 WorldCat entry.]</ref>  

[[Charleston County, South Carolina|Charleston]] was founded in 1670 by English and African immigrants from the Caribbean island of [[Barbados|Barbados]]. It became the largest city and capital of the South Carolina colony. Many trails and roads radiated out from Charleston.  

'''Connecting trails.''' The Fort Moore-Charleston Trail linked to other trails at each end.<ref>''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.'' (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 847-61. ({{FHL|1049485|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 2002}}) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140092 WorldCat entry.], and William E. Myer, ''Indian Trails of the Southeast''. (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971), 12-14, and the book's pocket map "The Trail System of the Southeastern United States in the early Colonial Period" (1923). ({{FHL|54678|item|disp=FHL Book 970.1 M992i}}) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1523234 WorldCat entry].</ref>  

The migration routes connected at the ''north'' end in [[Aiken County, South Carolina]], or in Augusta, [[Richmond County, Georgia|Richmond, Georgia]] included:  

For partial lists of early settlers who '''''may&nbsp;''''' have used the Fort Moore-Charleston Trail, see histories like:  

*Evelyn McDaniel Frazier Bryan, ''Colleton County, S.C.: a History of the First 160 Years, 1670-1830'' (Jacksonville, Florida: Florentine Press, 1993) ({{FHL|697866|item|disp=FHL Book 975.795 H2b}}) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29658563 WorldCat entry].

*Gasper Loren Toole, ''Ninety Years in Aiken County: Memoirs of Aiken County and Its People'' (Charleston?, S.C.: s.n., 1959) ({{FHL|66488|item|disp=FHL Book 975.775 H2t; Film 1425280 Item 3}}) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3363918 WorldCat entry].  

*Harold S. Maness, ''Forgotten Outpost: Fort Moore and Savannah Town, 1685-1765'' (Beech Island, South Carolina&nbsp;: Beech Island Historical Society, c1986) ({{FHL|964651|item|disp=FHL Book 975.775 H2mh}}) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13527831 WorldCat entry].

*"Beach Island, SC: a History Since 1685," http://www.beech-islandhistory.org/history.htm (accessed 13 April 2011).  

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