Hi Dave, This is an aside to your comment re "The Old National Highway". I believe that this name was applied to a highway built by the Federal Government and headed west from Lancaster Co., PA into Ohio and I am not sure how far it got beyond that point. It was to aid in settling the "West" and was built or started in the 1700's after the Rev. War. Cliff ----- Original Message ----- From: "David S. Payne" <otime1@yahoo.com> To: <SC-OLD-PENDLETON-DIST-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:52 AM Subject: [SC-OPD] Re: The Old Wagon Road > Kuzzins, > As far as I can find, the Old Wagon Road was the one that present day US hwy 29. Sometimes it was called the Old National Hwy too I think. > Seems like most of the familys came from VA, MD and PA coming South on that road. > DAVE > > > > Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:09:29 -0500 > From: "don cranston" > To: SC-OLD-PENDLETON-DIST-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Langford/Matthews > > I am searching the surname LANKFORD and MATTHEWS in S. C. pre 1810. > > If you lived , in what is now-- Anderson or Pickens County in 1785-1810 --how would have most people travel to Charleston? > The Great Wagon Road or the River? > > Thank you > Rose c > > ______________________________ > > > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 > Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:18:26 EST > From: EChamb6269@aol.com > To: SC-OLD-PENDLETON-DIST-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SC-OPD] Re: Langford/Matthews > > Ok not that great wagon road peaked my interest, where was it > and where would it be today > > ______________________________ > > > ATTACHMENT part 4 message/rfc822 > Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 22:53:17 -0500 > From: "Randall Frye" > To: SC-OLD-PENDLETON-DIST-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Early roads to Charleston > > You'll find that many of the modern South Carolina highways leading to > Charleston are basically following the same path of the roads of the late > 1700s and early 1800s. I have dozens of ancestors in the Dutch Fork section > of Newberry and Lexington counties, some of whom were named to oversee the > maintenance of the Charleston Road which is today US Hwy. 76. You can > follow Hwy. 76 from the Georgia line in Oconee County to Columbia and then > follow Hwy. 176 to Charleston. Highway 176 runs from Charleston to Buncomb > County, NC (Asheville). It runs through my hometown of Whitmire (Newberry > County) and has been a major travel route since the close of the > Revolutionary War. > > If you travel to Charleston today via Interstate 26, you are almost driving > on the footprints our ancestors left from their travels two centuries ago. > > Randall Frye > Laurens, South Carolina > (I live on West Main Street which is Hwy. 76 coming into Laurens from > Anderson) > > ______________________________ > > > ATTACHMENT part 5 message/rfc822 > Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:16:30 -0500 > From: "don cranston" > To: SC-OLD-PENDLETON-DIST-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SC-OPD] Re: Langford/Matthews > > The Great Warriors Path led from the Iroquois Confederacy around the Great > Lakes through what later became Lancaster and to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to > York, to Gettysburg, into the western Maryland around what is now known as > Hagerstown, across the Potomac River at Evan Watkins Ferry following the > narrow path across the "back country" or "up country" or "Piedmont" to > Winchester through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to Harrisburg, > Staunton, Lexington, Roanoke to Salem, North Carolina, to Salisbury, where > it was joined by the east-west Catawba and Cherokee Indian Trading Path to > at the Trading Ford across the Yadkin River, in Rowan, North Carolina, > thence to Charlotte, to Rock Hill, South Carolina where it branches to take > two routes to Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia. > > After the English started using the the path it was know as the "Great > Philadelphis Road". 1744, > As all early roads were at one time paths, over the years they evolved into > roads and many of those old paths are now in part of our Interstate highway > system. > > Rose C > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:18 PM > Subject: Re: [SC-OPD] Re: Langford/Matthews > > > > Ok not that great wagon road peaked my interest, where was > it > > and where would it be today > > > > > > ==== SC-OLD-PENDLETON-DIST Mailing List ==== > > Genealogy Resources on the Web > > http://www.ancestry.com > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. > > > ==== SC-OLD-PENDLETON-DIST Mailing List ==== > To check for a zip code or, > find out where a zip code is: > http://www.usps.gov/ncsc >