Try this site http://www.davidrumsey.com/index.html it might be helpful. Wanda Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary A Kunkle" <mary.kunkle@juno.com> To: <BROWN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:23 PM Subject: [BROWN] Lucinda, Daniel, Henry Brown 1840-1855 >I guess what I am wondering is how easily people could get >around this > area since it is so mountainous in a lot of the area and > has so many > large rivers and creeks. Present day maps are > crisscrossed with roads. > I doubt there were that many roads back then. I read a > book about the > settling of Tennessee but the time period was 1790 to > 1805, long before > my ancestors started trekking around. In the book, most > travel was done > by canoes via the rivers. Does anyone know of any maps on > the Internet > that would be from the mid to late 1800's? > > Thanks much. > Mary (Brown) Flowers > Midlothian, TX > > From: "Carolyn S. Howard" <CarolynSHoward@comcast.net> > > Well, as far as I know, I certainly don't think it was > easy travelling, > but > they could have done it, I'm think. There was no other > form of > transportation that I know of, other than by wagon trains, > by horseback, > by > stagecoach, or by boats or steamboats. Also, railroads > powered by steam > locomotion were started up fairly early. Does anybody > know of any other > forms of transportation during that time frame? You can > go on the > Internet, > you know, and put any word up at the top, like railroad > history, > steamboat > history, whatever, and press "Search" and see what you > get. Good luck. > > Sue Howard > > >> Could this family have easily travelled from NC, to AL >> and then back to >> TN during this time period of their births? >> Can anyone point me to any writings from this period that >> describe the >> modes of transportation in these areas after 1840 to >> 1870's? >> >> Thanks much. >> Mary (Brown) Flowers >> Midlothian, TX > ____________________________________________________________ > Click here to find the rental car that fits your needs. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw2i4KuMpzcxNh4tGKbc1XFbFoPZPlgXtuINoDRDYUP5459sx/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message