Migration Routes, Roads & Trails » Miscellaneous Trails

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  • Kentucky Road | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    1779 from the Wilderness Road and Cumberland Gap, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, historical background, map, and finding settler records.

  • King's Highway | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    1664 from Boston, Massachusetts to Savannah, Georgia, background history, route, and map.

  • Lower Cherokee Traders' Path | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    An ancient Indian path that connected Catawba Indian villages in the Waxhaws (Charlotte area) in North Carolina with Cherokee Indian "Lower Towns" in South Carolina and Georgia (Tugaloo) used by whites starting in the 1740s with background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • Mohawk or Iroquois Trail | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    About 1722 from Albany to Fort Oswego, New York, an important early British fur trading center, including background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • Natchez Trace | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    Important ancient Indian path used by whites starting 1742 from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • New River and Southern Trail | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    An ancient Indian path used by whites starting in the 1740s that connected the Yadkin River settlements of North Carolina to the Great Valley Road in Virginia and to the New River Gorge into West Virginia, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • Occaneechi Path | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    A key ancient Indian path and trunk trail that connected the Piedmont region including Chesapeake Bay (Petersburg, VA), Occaneechi Village (Clarksville, VA), the Waxhaws (Charlotte, NC), and Cherokee villages of the Carolinas and Georgia (Augusta, GA). Used by whites starting 1748. Includes background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • Old Cherokee Path | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    An ancient Indian path that connected the Lower Cherokee Indian villages, in particular Tugaloo just southwest of the Savannah River in what is now Georgia (but also villages in South Carolina), with several Indian trails, especially the Great Indian Warpath or Great Valley Road as it was called in Virginia. Used by some whites in the 1750s, but mostly after 1777. Includes background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • Old South Carolina State Road | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    1747 from Charleston to Orangeburg to Columbia to Greenville with exits into North Carolina and Georgia. Includes background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • Old Spanish Trail | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    1829 to mid-1850s trade route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Los Angeles, California, background history, routes, map, and finding setter records (Utah).

  • Secondary Coast Road | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    1730s or 1740s was a roughly parallel alternate to the King's Highway from Petersburg, Virginia and ended at Charleston County, South Carolina, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • Unicoi Trail | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    Was a pre-colonial Indian trading path connecting the western parts of North and South Carolina with eastern Tennessee. In 1795 settlers began using it, wagons about 1813, and it became a toll road in 1819. Includes background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

  • Upper Road | Learn | FamilySearch.org

    Or Piedmont Road by the 1740s more inland than the Fall Line Road starting from Fredericksburg, Virginia to Charlotte, North Carolina to Tugaloo, Georgia to Macon, Georgia, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

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