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Great Wagon Road marker

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April 11, 2007
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  • Diary of a journey of Moravians: First-hand account of the journey of twelve Moravian brothers from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Bethabara, North Carolina in 1753. (Page 6)

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Photograph of a historical marker on the Great Wagon Road.

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A historical marker along the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road — also referred to simply as the “Great Wagon Road.”

The plaque reads:

1753 Great Philadelphia Wagon Road

The most heavily traveled in Colonial America passed near here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid out on animal and Native American Trading & Warrior Paths. Indian treaties of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722 opened Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement along this road of the Piedmont.