The Great Wagon Road Map. Great Wagon Road Points and Parts From THE WAY WE LIVED IN NORTH CAROLINA edited by Joe A Jonathan Hager (1714-75), an immigrant from Westphalia, Germany, purchased 200 acres of land in Maryland—close to the Great Wagon Road—which he named Hager's Fancy.
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Plentiful hunting, abundant forests, and fertile land for farming supported a growing population The map, drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson's father) in 1751, was the first to show "The Great Road from the Yadkin River thro Virginia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles" -- what would come to be known as the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road or just the Great Wagon Road
Great Wagon Road
The Great Wagon Road promoted migration south from the urban areas near Philadelphia to the backcountry of Maryland and Virginia, especially in the eighteenth century The assumption was that our earliest immigrant ancestors were limited to the waterways which accessed the coast and an occasional Indian path. From THE WAY WE LIVED IN NORTH CAROLINA edited by Joe A
Great Philadelphia Wagon Road and Wilderness Road SchoolSocial. The assumption was that our earliest immigrant ancestors were limited to the waterways which accessed the coast and an occasional Indian path. (Click to view map.) The route that became the Great Wagon Road was originally a Native American hunting, trade, and war trail called the "Warrior's Path." In the mid-1700s European.
Great Wagon Road, Migration Route. Northern colonists searching for farmland began traveling the road in the 1720s, and thousands others followed suit during the mid-eighteenth century Map of The Great Wagon Road and its offshoots in North Carolina, 1750-1780