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''[[United States|United States ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Migration Internal|Migration ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[US Migration Trails and Roads|Trails and Roads ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Great_Valley_Road|Great Valley Road]]'' [[Image:{{GVRMap}}]] | ''[[United States|United States ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Migration Internal|Migration ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[US Migration Trails and Roads|Trails and Roads ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Great_Valley_Road|Great Valley Road]]'' [[Image:{{GVRMap}}]] | ||
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 backcountry of the southern British colonies. It went from [[Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] over to the Shenandoah Valley of [[Virginia]] forking into the [[Tennessee]] Valley and Knoxville. The other fork went more south into the Piedmont Region of [[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) | 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 backcountry of the southern British colonies. It went from [[Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] over to the Shenandoah Valley of [[Virginia]] forking into the [[Tennessee]] Valley and Knoxville. The other fork went more south into the Piedmont Region of [[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> | ||
=== Historical Background === | === Historical Background === | ||
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After 1744, the Great Valley Road was most heavily used by Ulster-Irish immigrants called Scots-Irish in America to spread through most of Appalachia bringing their [[United States Church Records#Presbyterian|Presbyterian]] religion.<ref name="ComptonB" /> Pennsylvania Germans also used the trail to spread into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The Moravians of Pennsylvania followed the road to settle the Wachovia region of North Carolina starting in 1753. The first settlements of Virginians in Tennessee were associated with the end of the trail in that region in the 1760s. | After 1744, the Great Valley Road was most heavily used by Ulster-Irish immigrants called Scots-Irish in America to spread through most of Appalachia bringing their [[United States Church Records#Presbyterian|Presbyterian]] religion.<ref name="ComptonB" /> Pennsylvania Germans also used the trail to spread into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The Moravians of Pennsylvania followed the road to settle the Wachovia region of North Carolina starting in 1753. The first settlements of Virginians in Tennessee were associated with the end of the trail in that region in the 1760s. | ||
In 1746 the [[Pioneer Road]] first crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains from Alexandria to Winchester, Virginia, where it fed into the Great Valley Road.<ref>Dollarhide, 6</ref> The [[Wilderness Road]] opened in 1775 into central Kentucky, and branched off the Great Valley Road in southwest Virginia at Bristol (Sapling Grove).<ref>Dollarhide, 12-13.</ref> Starting in the late 1770s explorers and pioneers at Staunton, Virginia started using the [[Kanawha Trail|Kanawha Trail]] which followed the New River/Kanawha River into West Virginia.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Kanawha River" in ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanawha_River (accessed 1 August 2010).</ref> From the terminus of the Great Valley Road at Knoxville, [[Avery's Trace|Avery's Trace]] to Nashville opened in 1788, and the [[Georgia Road]] to Athens opened in 1805. | In 1746 the [[Pioneer Road]] first crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains from Alexandria to Winchester, Virginia, where it fed into the Great Valley Road.<ref>Dollarhide, 6</ref> The [[Wilderness Road]] opened in 1775 into central Kentucky, and branched off the Great Valley Road in southwest Virginia at Bristol (Sapling Grove).<ref>Dollarhide, 12-13.</ref> Starting in the late 1770s explorers and pioneers at Staunton, Virginia started using the [[Kanawha Trail|Kanawha Trail]] which followed the New River/Kanawha River into West Virginia.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Kanawha River" in ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanawha_River (accessed 1 August 2010).</ref> From the terminus of the Great Valley Road at Knoxville, [[Avery's Trace|Avery's Trace]] to Nashville opened in 1788, and the [[Georgia Road]] to Athens opened in 1805. | ||
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'''''in Tennessee''''' | '''''in Tennessee''''' | ||
*East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee : a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL|976.8 H2ff | *East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee : a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL|976.8 H2ff}}]. | ||
{{Wikipedia|Great Wagon Road}} | {{Wikipedia|Great Wagon Road}} | ||
=== Internet Sites === | === Internet Sites === | ||