Trading Path
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The Trading Path (a.k.a.
Both Natives and newcomers mainly used the Trading Path for commercial cargo carriage. In early colonial times, Virginian traders used the path to travel to Native American towns in the Waxhaws. They led long pack caravans of horses carrying "loads of guns, gunpowder, knives, jewelry, blankets, and hatchets, among other goods", and travel southwest to Indigenous villages along the journey to the Waxhaws region, in the vicinity of present-day Mecklenburg County.[1] They exchanged European goods for furs and deerskins.
Because the path was well laid out through the complex geography of the piedmont area, connecting fords of many streams, it was roughly followed by the 19th-century
The Piedmont Urban Crescent essentially has developed along the Trading Path, and since the late 19th century has had steady growth. It is a spine of polycentric urban development in North Carolina. Cities of the Crescent are the centers of government, finance, education and research, and business in the state.
References
- ^ "Trading Path, Marker L-35", North Carolina Historical Markers Highway Program, Department of Cultural Resources, accessed 3 Apr 2010
External links
- The Trading Path Association
- Colonial Trading Path historical marker
- Famous Indian Trail historical marker
- Hightower (Etowah) Trail historical marker
- Indian War Trail historical marker
- Sandtown Trail historical marker
- The Unicoi Turnpike historical marker