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At the north end of the Upper Road three main roads converge at [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]]: | At the north end of the Upper Road three main roads converge at [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]]: | ||
{{Block indent|*[[King's Highway]] which connects Boston, Massachusetts to [[Savannah, Georgia]] }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Fall Line Road]] connecting [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]] to [[Montgomery, Alabama]] }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Upper_Road]] connecting [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]] to [[Macon, Georgia]]}} | |||
Trails that meet the Upper Road near Tugaloo, Georgia area include: | Trails that meet the Upper Road near Tugaloo, Georgia area include: | ||
{{Block indent|*Savannah River }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Lower Cherokee Traders' Path]] a pre-historic trail connecting the [http://sciway3.net/scgenweb/pickens-county/images/sheriff-01.pdf Lower Cherokee Villages] to the Catawba Indians ([[Charlotte, North Carolina]]) }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Old Cherokee Path]] a pre-historic trail from the [http://sciway3.net/scgenweb/pickens-county/images/sheriff-01.pdf Lower Cherokee Villages] to [[Washington County, Virginia]] on the [[Great Valley Road]] (also known as the [[Great Indian Warpath]]) }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Coosa-Tugaloo Indian Warpath]] was a pre-historic path that went toward [[Birmingham, Alabama]] }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Tugaloo-Apalachee Bay Trail]] was a pre-historic trail headed for the Florida panhandle and probably [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Luis_de_Apalachee Mission San Luis de Apalachee] }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Augusta and Cherokee Trail]] was a pre-historic trail from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugaloo Tugaloo] originally to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_Town,_South_Carolina Savannah Town, South Carolina] and later [[Richmond County, Georgia Genealogy|Augusta, Georgia]] }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Old South Carolina State Road|Old South Carolina State Road]] 1747 a fork of this road apparently connected [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugaloo Tugaloo], Georgia to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Prince_George_(South_Carolina) Fort Prince George], to [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]] and to [[Charleston, South Carolina]]. }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Fort Charlotte and Cherokee Old Path|Fort Charlotte and Cherokee Old Path]] after 1765 followed the northeast side of the Savannah River from the [[Old Cherokee Path]] in [[Oconee County, South Carolina|Oconee County]] down to old [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Charlotte_(South_Carolina) Fort Charlotte] in northwest [[McCormick County, South Carolina]] }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Upper_Road]] about 1783 (overlapping the Lower Cherokee Traders' Path) connecting [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]] to [[Macon, Georgia]] }} | |||
{{Block indent|1=*[[Unicoi Trail|Unicoi Turnpike]] opened to a few European traders 1690, but the wagon road was not opened to settlers until 1813 from near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugaloo Tugaloo] headed northwest to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee Overhill Cherokee villages] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee Knoxville] in [[Tennessee, United States Genealogy|Tennessee]]<ref>Lowell Kirk, "The Unicoi Turnpike" at http://www.telliquah.com/unicoi.htm (accessed 3 May 2011).</ref><ref>William E. Myer, ''Indian Trails of the Southeast''. (Nashville, Tenn.: Blue and Gray Press, 1971). ({{FSC|54678|item|disp=FS Library Book 970.1 M992i}}) [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1523234 WorldCat entry].</ref>|2=1}} | |||
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At the south end of the Upper Road it connects with: | At the south end of the Upper Road it connects with: | ||
{{Block indent|*[[Fall Line Road]] connecting [[Fredericksburg, Virginia]] to [[Montgomery, Alabama]] }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[[Federal Horse Path]] which extends from Macon, Georgia toward New Orleans, Louisiana.}} | |||
=== Settlers and Records === | === Settlers and Records === | ||
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