Harriet, Your information is terrific! Thanks for sharing. I am going to reply separately to make for more easy reading to several of your thoughts. I will add your first three paragraphs to my Great Wagon Road file. I would like to clarify the fourth paragraph by saying that the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road and Wilderness Road (that went through the Shenadoah Valley) actually divided earlier than Rock Hill, SC. The spot where the travelers needed to make the decision to go southwest on the Wilderness Road or south to the Carolinas and Georgia was actually Big Lick, Virginia now called Roanoke. It has been said that when the Bryant family moved south into the Yadkin area, that the family widened what they called the Carolina Road to let their group use the wagons that they had brought. After that some called that stretch of road the Bryant road ....you know I just went on-line quickly to see whether I was spelling this name correctly...and found that more often the author that I checked spelled it Bryan although she refers to it as Bryan(t) in Orange County. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/MADKY/2002-04/1019942847 Marsha Moses Harriet Imrey wrote: > > > > >The Parke Rouse Jr. book, The Great Wagon Road (I like it), includes a map >of the "Great Philadelphia Wagon Road and Wilderness Road" which shows a >branching of routes at Rock Hill (York Co) SC, with an eastern branch going >through Camden SC to Augusta GA, and a western branch going through Newberry >SC, then to Augusta GA. The map includes no dates. Surveyor/mapmaker Henry >Mouzon produced a map of the Carolinas in 1774, and it was considered the >most reliable one of its time. The copy which Gen. George Washington >carried in his saddlebag is at Mt. Vernon; Gen. Cornwallis carried one too >(otherwise, nobody would have known where/how to find the next battle). >Mouzon failed to notice a route from York Co SC to the site of Newberry SC, >which leads one to wonder if there were a marked-road, or blazed-trail, at >that time. The road south from Charlotte NC cut west from York Co SC (noted >as "Path from the Cherokees") into TN, it intersected a trading-path to the >south at roughly the site of Union SC. That north/south path ran parallel >to the Broad River, crossed Second Creek and Cannon's Creek in the Newberry >Co region, didn't get anywhere close to Bush River or the later town of >Newberry. > > > >