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Reaching The Potomac 18th Century Style

Posted by Carol @Piedmont Trails on April 26, 2021 at 7:30pm

13559141676?profile=originalThe Great Warrior’s Path, otherwise known as the Great Wagon Road, traveled southward from western Maryland to the crossing of the Potomac River.(1) During a 1722 meeting with Colonel Alexander Spotswood of Virginia and the Five Nations of Iroquois, an agreement confirming the traveling limitations strictly to the Warrior’s route and not west of the Blue Ridge Mountains was achieved.(2) Spotswood reflected upon this meeting as an act of peace and growth for the area of Virginia. The treaty prove

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