In a message dated 4/10/06 7:04:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wehrung@hotmail.com writes: > This is a wonderful site! The big question when you have no real > information except a location is "why did they settle there?" often answered > by "how did they get there?" > The roads often answer the second question and these maps give lots of > answers. Don't forget that water played a large part in folks getting around those mountains - specifically, the Susquehanna and the Ohio Rivers, and Lake Eire, and later, the Eire Canal (my Scots-Irish family came to PA that way). An interesting book described how George Washington used the Potomac River to get to PA and then to the Ohio River. Ann