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=== History === | === History === | ||
Gist's Trace was only sixty miles in length but was an important migration route because it created the passage between the Potomac and Monongahela rivers. It provided pioneers means to travel into western | Gist's Trace was only sixty miles in length but was an important migration route because it created the passage between the Potomac and Monongahela rivers. It provided pioneers means to travel into western Pennsylvania and as far west as Ohio thus promoting settlements in those areas. Once it was completed it offered a roadway for settlers in stage coaches and wagons as they made their way western into the frontiers. Rivers also afforded a means of transport from one area into another without the necessity of breaking a trail through forested land. The Gist Trace started at the mouth of Wills Creek, traversed the Laurel Mountains to the Monongahela River to its junction with Redstone Creek. The trace traversed the country between what is now known as Cumberland, Maryland to the present day city of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. | ||
=== Present Day === | === Present Day === | ||