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The Great Wagon Road continued south and west as described below. NC-1001: Shallowford Rd: 6.6 miles (10.6 km) Shallow Ford (Yadkin River); Yadkin County line (estab. 1850) This is where the Great Wagon Road ended in 1748 when Morgan Bryan finished his trip and settled south of the ford. [103]
Morgan Bryan led his extended family to the Forks of the Yadkin in the Province of North Carolina, now the state of North Carolina, and founded Bryan's Settlement there.He was known for "establishing critical settlements down the Shenandoah Valley along the Great Wagon Road in the Southeast."
The original fort was built in 1753 on the Great Wagon Road leading from Philadelphia to North Carolina, [3]: 43 to protect the home of Ephraim Vause and his neighbors. There is no description of the fort, but privately-built fortified homesteads of this period were typically stockades surrounding the farmhouse and outbuildings, in some cases ...
Monocacy was a village in Frederick County, Maryland that was located along an old Indian trail known as the Monocacy Trail that ran parallel to the Monocacy River.The trail was known as the Great Wagon Road by colonial travelers; it went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and later was renamed Monocacy Road.
An official report made by General P. H. Sheridan published in July 1866 described the Valley Pike as follows: "The city of Martinsburg,... is on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at the northern terminus of the Valley pike--a broad macadamized road, running up the valley, through Winchester, and terminating at Staunton."
An Act for repairing the Road leading from the Town of Penrith, in the County of Cumberland, by Hutton Hall, over Skelton and Castlesowerby Pastures and Sebraham Bridge, to Chalk Beck, in the said County; and also the Road which branches and separates from the same Road upon Castlesowerby Pasture aforesaid, and leads from thence through Hesket ...
As the years rolled on, complaints about Dug Road continued. The Times Recorder, on Jan. 13, 1900, argued: “Dug Road is almost bottomless. Unusual traffic makes it a regular morass and breeder ...
The Shallow Ford, which became part of the Great Wagon Road, was the only place in the vicinity that was shallow enough for heavy wagons to cross. [ 2 ] When a road was extended from the Moravian settlement of Bethabara to the Shallow Ford in 1753, the village just west of the river became a frequent stop on the stagecoach trail.