Great Valley Road
United States 
Migration Trails and Roads Great Valley Road
The Great Valley Road, also called in various parts the "Great Wagon Road," "Great Warriors' Trail," "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. The Wilderness Road into Kentucky branched off the Great Valley Road in southwest Virginia.
Historical Background
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 Presbyterian religion.
Route
Settlers and Records
For partial list of settlers who used the Great Valley Road to settle in ??? , see .