At 12:30 PM 9/19/99 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, does anyone know about trails used to go back and forth between Asheville NC and Greeneville TN? > >Thanks, Marian >[email protected] this is exactly what I have wanted to know, and never really got a good answer. How did they go from that part of VA over Smokey Mountains into TN....seems there must have been trails, I think part of VA a bit more north-east had mines in mountains.....but that very southern part of VA and NC.....there are some real mountains between them and Tennessee. Did they go around, say thru the northeastern tip of GA and back to TN? Since in early times they used rivers.... I know that ca 1804 people were coming out of Patrick County Virginia into TN...I know where they came in more or less, but where is the pass thru the mountains? What was it called? I have traveled by car from Asheville NC thru Smokey Mountain national park into TN....and that is where my family was located. But even today in a car, that is a bit of a climb. How would they have moved except on foot in early times? I am sure hunters would use that route, but when moving a family with animals, possissions, etc.....they most likely would have used a water route? Mary