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Originally an Indian path, this trail connected North Carolina's European Yadkin River settlements with the Waxhaws settlements and the Lower Cherokee towns mostly in South Carolina. These eventually provided as much as 1/4th of the European settlers in what became Tennessee. | Originally an Indian path, this trail connected North Carolina's European Yadkin River settlements with the Waxhaws settlements and the Lower Cherokee towns mostly in South Carolina. These eventually provided as much as 1/4th of the European settlers in what became Tennessee. | ||
The first European colonists settled in counties along this trail as follows:<ref>North Carolina - The Counties, http://www.carolana.com/NC/Counties/nc_counties_alphabetical_order.html (accessed 1 February 2011).</ref><ref>South Carolina - The Counties, http://www.carolana.com/SC/Counties/sc_counties_alphabetical_order.html (accessed 1 February 2011).</ref> | |||
*[[Wilkes County, North Carolina|Wilkes NC]] 1750s | |||
*[[Alexander County, North Carolina|Alexander NC]] 1750s | |||
*[[Catawba County, North Carolina|Catawba NC]] 1740s | |||
*[[Lincoln County, North Carolina|Lincoln NC]] 1740s | |||
*[[Gaston County, North Carolina|Gaston NC]] 1740s | |||
*[[York County, South Carolina|York SC]] 1750 | |||
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