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=== Settlers and Records === | === Settlers and Records === | ||
No lists of settlers who used the Fall Line Road are known to exist. | No lists of settlers who used the Fall Line Road are known to exist. However, local and county histories along the road may reveal that many of the first pioneer settlers arrived from places to the northeast along the route. | ||
Most settlers would have moved from the northeast to the southwest along the Fall Line Road. People from Pennsylvania (especially around the major port city of Philadelphia), southern New Jersey, eastern Maryland, and northern Virginia would be the most likely starting places for Fall Line Road travelers. They would have settled in places like Richmond or Petersburg in southern Virginia, or in the Carolinas, or Augusta, Georgia until about 1790. The Georgia portion of the road was not open to most white settlers until after a series of treaties from 1790 to 1826. In 1831 the last treaty made the road clear to settlers all the way to Montgomery, Alabama. | |||
The Scots-Irish (or Ulster Irish) were among the more common ethinic groups found plying the Fall Line Road. | |||
=== Sources === | === Sources === | ||