One road south named the Carolina Road on Viriginia signposts and road maps goes just east of the first mountain ridge that builds the eastern wall of the Shenandoah Valley --going from Frederick Maryland across to Loudoun Co. and down through Virginia to Old Orange Co., NC and south, where it meets up with other old trails down into Old Anson/Rowan/Mecklenburg. In Virginia and northern NC it is basically US 15. Since the road in the north links up to old roads going to Baltimore and Philadelphia, it is quite probable that Quakers coming down to Cane Creek MM in old Orange/current Alamance came through Loudoun. Many of the Loudoun Co., VA, Fairfax MM Quakers left for Cane Creek and adjacent meetings down this Carolina Road. It is also most likely that my Dodd clan from Loudoun came through this US 15/ Carolina Road. There would have been fewer major mountain obstacles (the pass from Roanoke down into Mount Airy, NC, and on down into Guilford was indeed a main road but even today its steepness is awesome) but several rivers to cross. You can still see the rut of this old wagon trail in several places in Orange Co., NC, especially in Hillsborough, a colonial capital of NC. Off the top of the head, I'd say that the trail south from Granville/ Orange on into old Bladen (lower half of NC and northern SC at one time)/Anson/Rowan joins the Carolina branch of the Wagon Trail about where I-85 veers south from Guilford, NC, passing by several Quaker meetings and on to the Yadkin River's Shallow Ford, just west of where I-85 now crosses that major river, as Sue Wyatt demonstrated. Sorry, I've packed up my records so I can move in the next month, or I would scan a map of NC colonial era trails. Several of the excellent NC deed abstract books include copies of trail maps. Here's the link to NC county formation maps. http://www.usgwarchives.org/nc/ncmaps.html

Anne, I find that particularly interesting. I attended the Virginia Genealogical Society's Spring event. The second speaker of the day talked about the French and Indian War. And he made a blanket statement that I have been meaning to explore. He said that when the Indian atrocities began to happen on what was then the Virginia frontier, the Quakers moved to Louden County, Virginia and the Germans moved to Frederick, Maryland. So perhaps I should be looking at Loudoun County and Fairfax MM for the missing links for my Bush River people. Do you know who your Dodd Clan was intermarried with? I found a map that may show the road that you are talking about at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~soden/images/Maps/Thumbnails/ColonialRoads.jpg and perhaps even better: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bruckner/maps/colonial_roads_1750.jpg So it is possible that some of our ancestors who came from the north travelled this road instead of what we have been calling the Great Wagon road. What do you think? marsha moses Anne Crocker wrote: >One road south named the Carolina Road on Viriginia signposts and >road maps goes just east of the first mountain ridge that builds the >eastern wall of the Shenandoah Valley --going from Frederick Maryland >across to Loudoun Co. and down through Virginia to Old Orange Co., NC >and south, where it meets up with other old trails down into Old >Anson/Rowan/Mecklenburg. In Virginia and northern NC it is basically >US 15. Since the road in the north links up to old roads going to >Baltimore and Philadelphia, it is quite probable that Quakers coming >down to Cane Creek MM in old Orange/current Alamance came through >Loudoun. Many of the Loudoun Co., VA, Fairfax MM Quakers left for >Cane Creek and adjacent meetings down this Carolina Road. It is also >most likely that my Dodd clan from Loudoun came through this US 15/ >Carolina Road. There would have been fewer major mountain obstacles >(the pass from Roanoke down into Mount Airy, NC, and on down into >Guilford was indeed a main road but even today its steepness is >awesome) but several rivers to cross. > >You can still see the rut of this old wagon trail in several places >in Orange Co., NC, especially in Hillsborough, a colonial capital of NC. > >Off the top of the head, I'd say that the trail south from Granville/ >Orange on into old Bladen (lower half of NC and northern SC at one >time)/Anson/Rowan joins the Carolina branch of the Wagon Trail about >where I-85 veers south from Guilford, NC, passing by several Quaker >meetings and on to the Yadkin River's Shallow Ford, just west of >where I-85 now crosses that major river, as Sue Wyatt demonstrated. > >Sorry, I've packed up my records so I can move in the next month, or >I would scan a map of NC colonial era trails. Several of the >excellent NC deed abstract books include copies of trail maps. > >Here's the link to NC county formation maps. >http://www.usgwarchives.org/nc/ncmaps.html > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >