USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -(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 colonists, many arriving from ships in or near Philadelphia, began traveling south along the trail in search of land for new homes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Wagon Road was an improved trail through the Great Appalachian Valley from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and from there to Georgia in colonial America.

Detailed explanation-3: -Following routes established by Native Americans, the Great Wagon Road enabled eighteenth-century travel from Philadelphia and its hinterlands westward to Lancaster and then south into the backcountry of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.

Detailed explanation-4: -They were the Nissens from Salem, now known as Winston-Salem. They were wagon builders who came down the Great Wagon Road, set up shop in Salem, and made wagons that carried everything around the agrarian South.

Detailed explanation-5: -Like many colonial roads, most of the Great Wagon Road was little more than a wide dirt path. Travel was slow. Rain storms made the road almost impassable. Immigrants came by foot, horse, or wagon.