Alabama:
Location: 248 U.S. Highway 321 North, Troy, Pike Co., AL 36081 Marker is near the entrance to the Pioneer Museum of Alabama (0.3 mi. north of Monticello Dr., on the left when traveling north).
Title: The Great Pensacola Trading Path
Text: “In the early 1800s south Alabama was still Inhabited by many groups of Native Americans: Creek, Chickasaw, and Choctaw among others. They traveled, hunted, traded, and made war on the many ancient trails here. European settlers improved these roads which included The Mobile and Hobuckintopa Trail, Old Wolf Path, Blind Jack, Three Notch Road and The Great Pensacola Trading Path, which ran from Tuckabatchie to Pensacola, FL In 1824, troops under Capt. Daniel E. Burch Improved a section of these paths through Troy, known as Three Notch, as part of the Great Pensacola Trading Path.
Erected by the Alabama State Society and The National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler”
Date of Dedication: 29 March 2003
1 Alaska:
Location: In Keystone Canyon, Valdez, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK 99686. On the Richardson Highway, 22 miles outside Valdez, sign posted: “Welcome to Valdez, City Center 22 miles”. Close by, in Keystone Canyon, at an entrance to a small goat trail, the marker is about 20 feet down the trail. Note: There is another entrance to the trail at Bridal Veil Falls. Follow the path about 7 miles to the marker.
Title: Gold Rush Pioneer Trail: The Richardson Highway, Oldest Highway in Alaska
Text:
“Miners in 1897 built the Valdez-Eagle Trail. In Klondike Gold Rush, it was used for telegraph lines to Fairbanks. 1910 upgrade, called the Valdez-Fairbanks Wagon Road, under Gen. Wiles P. Richardson, improved for wagon use in he Keystone Canyon area. Home for moose, black and brown bears, and transitional rain forests. The trail, renamed for Richardson, is a tribute to the pioneer spirit that built Alaska and opened a wilderness.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Project of the 2000-3 administration, Mary Ann G. Hepler, National President.”
Date of Dedication: 8 September 2002
2 Arkansas:
Location: At the corner of Mixtec Drive and Mixtec Circle, Cherokee Village, Fulton Co., AR 72529-7600, on property of member Jane Sandefur, deceased 11 May 2017
Title: Ancient Path
Text:
“Arkansas is crossed by many ancient paths, some forged by large animal herds and later improved by Native Americans and later European settlers moving West. One Trail passed here and was part of an ancient Indian trading trail system. This trail became a branch of The Military Road used in the removal of Native Americans and immigrants going to Northwest Arkansas. That it is still visible is a testament to its hard use for many years by the thousands passing this way.
Erected by the Arkansas State Society National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 3 April 2003
3 California:
Location: Originally placed in Gilroy, Santa Clara Co., CA; marker to be relocated near the residence of Past State Regent Michele Hults
Title: Ancient Paths
Text:
“California had an ancient system of Paths made by migrating herds as they searched for food and salt. Native Americans later used these trails to hunt, gather, and trade for survival. European colonists improved these roads as they settled here. The Russians used coastal paths to hunt sea otters for fur. Spain claimed the West Coast and using a Mission system comprised of the El Camino Real, the main Spanish trail that was the center connection of the De Anza Trail, Pacheco Pass, and Hecker Pass Trails. These trails became the natural crossroads of California travel and settlement.
Erected by the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 2003
4 Colorado:
Location: Mineral Palace Park, between 1500 and 2100 N. Santa Fe Ave., Pueblo, Pueblo Co., CO 81003. The marker is at the north end of the Mineral Palace Gardens.
Title: Ancient Paths, The Cherokee Trail
Text:
“In 1849, Cherokee Indian gold seekers pioneered what is now Colorado’s busiest highway. Starting at Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas River, the Cherokee Trail runs west to Pueblo, then north along the Front Range into Wyoming. Some 600 miles from Bent’s Fort it ends at Fort Bridger on Blacks Fork of the Green River. At Fort Bridger, Cherokee and other California bound travelers switched to the Oregon-California Trail. Today, the Trail has been replaced by U.S. Highway 50, Interstate 25 and Interstate 80.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 15 March 2003
5 Connecticut:
Location: Main St., Woodbury, Litchfield Co., CT 06798, near the footbridge at the south end of Main St.
Title: Ancient Trading Path
Text:
“In past times the ancient paths in Connecticut were formed by large animals as they moved with the seasons and migrated towards salt deposits. The Native Americans followed these same paths as they hunted these animals. Traded with other tribes and also made waar in troubled times. European colonials found these paths and used them to trade and migrate into the interior of this state and new nation. This foot path, Main Street, was used by local tribes as they traded and hunted, and colonials as they migrated and settled this area.
Erected by the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President Caryl S. Stratton, State Regent”
Date of Dedication: 1 April 2003
6 Delaware:
Location: Nanticoke Indian Museum, 27073 John J. Williams Highway, Millsboro, Sussex Co., DE 19966-4642; located at the corner of Rt. 24 (John J. Williams Hwy.) and Oak Orchard Rd. on the site of a former Nanticoke schoolhouse.
Title: Ancient Paths
Text: “In the ancient past Delaware was crossed by a network of Paths first forged by large animals and herds of buffalo migrating along the coast searching for food and salt deposits. The first settlers in this first state were The Nanticoke (Tidewater) Native Americans settling and trading here since the early 1600’s gaining a land grant by trade with the Swedes and improving the herd paths as they built their trading routes between tribes. They were recognized by Capt. John Smith as good trading partners to early European settlers. These Paths were used by Nanticoke & colonists fighting together in the Revolution.
Erected by the Delaware State Society National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 Administration Mary Ann Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 1 April 2003
7 Florida:
Location: In Pensacola at the U.S. Naval Air Command, located on Slemmer St., Pensacola, Escambia Co., FL 32508. Marker is placed at the site of the 17th century Fort San Carlos and Presidio Santa Maria de Galve, on board the Pensacola Naval Air Station, located looking directly west, across Slemmer St., from the base headquarters which now occupies the former Naval Photography School, a large white-painted building. The marker is on high ground two blocks north of Pensacola Pass, the entrance to Pensacola Bay from the Gulf of Mexico. The marker is about 100 feet north of the northwest corner of Slemmer and Hatch Streets.
Title: Pathway to Early America
Text: “In 1559, Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sailed from Vera Cruz to Pensacola Bay in La Florida to establish the first permanent colony. The bay, also known as Ochuse and Panzacola, was reached by this sea pathway on August 15, 1559. A hurricane in September destroyed most of the 11 ships, horses, and killing many of the 1000 colonists, soldiers and servants. This first effort failed by 1561, and would not succeed until 1698 when Ft. San Carlos de Austria and the town of Santa Maria de Galve were built on the present Naval Air Station. The exact location of de Luna’s first site is unknown.
Erected by the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 21 October 2003
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Illinois:
Location: Macktown Living History Center, Mactown Forest Preserve and Park, 2221 Freeport Road, Rockton, Winnebago Co., IL 61072-1817
Title: Great Indian Warrior/Trading Path
Text:
“Near this location, passed the ancient Native American Warrior/Trading Path. First forged by animals finding salt and migrating with the seasons, later followed by hunters and traders and finally by pioneers as they settled this area permanently. Used by French fur traders, Jesuit missionaries, and eastern pioneer settlers like Stephen Mack, Jr. trading with Winnebago, Sauk, Fox, Potawatomi, and others, as they built fords, trading posts and farms. This Path network linked eastern and western paths and made a new nation possible.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Project of the 2000-3 administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 17 May 2003
9 Indiana:
Location: 5786 North Wheeling Ave., Muncie, Delaware Co., IN 47304 On the Cardinal Greenway Bicycle Fitness Trail where it crosses The Old Indian Trail (Wheeling Pike) in Delaware County. Marker is just southeast of where Wheeling Avenue crosses the Cardinal Greenways Trail.
Title: Old Indian Trail/Wheeling Pike
Text:
“Several principal Indian and Pioneer Paths cut across Indiana and Delaware County connecting trading and warrior routes of ancient times. First made by migrating large animals search for salt, followed by Native Americans for food, trade and war, these connecting paths linked civilizations together and became he early pioneer roads developind America. The “Old Indian Trail” linked “Muncytown” from White River to the town of Wheeling, on the Union City, OH to Peru, IN trail. “Muncytown” was joined to Fort Hamilton, OH by the Whitewater Trail through Connersville. Another Path linked Indianaapolis to Portland through Muncie.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 17 May 2003
10 Kentucky:
Location: Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park, on Park Road, adjacent to the parking lot of the Pioneer Museum within the park, near Mount Olivet, Carlisle, Robertson Co., KY 40311 (in the northeast corner of the state)
Title: Great Indian Warrior Trading Path
Text:
“A western branch of this vital Colonial Road passed close to this area on the original Animal Trace formed by migrating animals seeking salt deposits. It is the northernmost portion of the Warriors Path in KY. It connects the Shawnee in the North with the Cherokee in the South. Revolutionary Soldiers on both sides used the Path. Daniel Boone’s son, Israel, lost his life here in Kentucky’s last battle of the Revolution, 1782, at Blue Licks.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 30 March 2002
11 Louisiana:
Location: 6354 Highway 485, Robeline, LA 71469-4969; Museum of Los Adaes State Historic Site, Robeline, LA. Marker is located in the Los Adaes Historic Site near Robeline, LA, about 20 feet away from the 1933 marker.
Title: El Camino Real de los Tejas (Royal Road of the Tejas Indians)
Text:
“This early road connected the presidio “Nuestra Senora del Pilar de lost Adaes” to the royal authority in Mexico City. An elected representative from Los Adaes traveled the 1300 miles to Mexico City where he collected the soldiers’ salaries and purchased goods needed by the soldiers in Mexico City, Saltillo and other cities, the round trip Taking as long as six months. Portions of “Camino Real de los Tejas” are preserved at Los Adaes State Historic Site.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 26 February 2003
12 Maryland:
Location: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 401 Museum Drive, Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD 21740-6495
Title: Great Indian Warrior/Trading Path
Text:
“The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/ Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA, & VA and the 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722, opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization. In MD, known as the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, passed by Hagerstown and crossed the Potomac at Evan Watkins Ferry.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 10 August 2002
13 Missouri:
Location: Faust Park, 15185 Olive Road, Chesterfield, St. Louis Co., MO 63017-1805, just outside St. Louis, MO. The marker is next to the parking lot near the bus turning area in Faust Park.
Title: Pioneer Path, Olive Street – Central Plank Road
Text:
“This road was first a Buffalo Trace and a Native American Trail, then a widely used dirt road and a vital river-to-river connection for the early pioneers pressing westward. In 1851, first covered with oak planks to improve it and was called The Central Plank Road
Donated in memory of Mrs. J. L. R. Boyd NSDAC Honorary National Vice President By Charlotte Boyd, MO State Regent
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Project of the 2000-3 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 7 March 2003
14 Montana:
Location: Unknown
The Montana State Regent Mary Urquhart organized the placement of the marker after the end of the 2000-2003 administration of National President Mary Ann Groome Hepler. Sewah Studios, the manufacturer of the marker, located at Milcreek Road, PO Box 298, Marietta OH 45750, confirmed the ordering, casting, and delivery of the marker.
Title: 1805 – Lewis and Clark Trail
No photograph
Text: (Below the NSDAC emblem)
Unavailable; however, the text included credit to the
“National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Project of the 2000-3 Administration, Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 21 April 2003
15 New Jersey:
Location: 880 Bloomfield Ave., Verona, NJ 07044-1997, Historic District, in Essex Co., NJ. The marker was placed on the Green near the red brick Verona Library.
Title: Ancient Native American Trail
Text:
“Lenni Lenape Indians (Original People) Inhabited Verona in Colonial times. Area settlers traded with and learned much from these Native American who granted land deeds in return for needed supplies. Once such trail crossed Bloomfield Avenue nearby and was used for trading with the Colonials. Many Lenni Lenape artifacts were found in this area of Verona.
Erected by the New Jersey State Society and The National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 10 May 2003
16 New York:
Location: Van Wyck Homestead Museum and Historical Park, 504 US 9, Fishkilll, Dutchess Co., in the Hudson Valley, NY 12524. Site for the marker is on U.S. 9 near Interstate 84, on the right when traveling north, a short distance from the Hudson River in Fishkill NY.
Title: Great Indian Warrior Trading Path
Text:
“The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from The Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA, & VA and the 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722, opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization. In NY, the Path linked the Iroquois around The Great Lakes to the major eastern trails and tribes for trade, hunting, and war.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Project of the 2000-3 Administration “
Date of Dedication: 18 October 2001
17 North Carolina:
Location: Marker located near the entrance to the Bethabara Park, 2147 Bethabara Rd., Winston-Salem, Forsyth Co., NC 27106
Title: 1753 Great Philadelphia Wagon Road
Text:
“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 among NY, PA, VA and the Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722 opened Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement along this road of the Piedmont.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-3 Administration”
Date of Dedication: 5 October 2001
18 Pennsylvania:
Location: Lancaster County Historical Park 3, site is 20 yards from an Indian archaeological dig, at 1050 Rockford Rd., Lancaster, Lancaster Co., PA 17602-4624
Title: Great Indian Warrior Trading Path
Text:
“The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/Warrior Paths, Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA, and VA and the 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722, opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization. In PA the Path was called the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road and passed by Philadelphia, Lancaster, York and Gettysburg.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Project of the 2000-3 Administration”
Date of Dedication: 29 September 2001
19 South Carolina:
Location: Landsford Canal State Park, 2051 Park Dr., Catawba, SC 29704-9709, near Chester. Marker a few feet from the old fording trail, near Fort Lawn, Chester Co., SC.
Title: Great Indian Warrior Trading Path (The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road)
Text: “The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/ Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA, and VA and the 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722, opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization. In SC, the Path forked going West through Rock Hill, Chester, and Newberry; and, East through Camden on animal salt trails.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration”
Date of Dedication: 22 February 2002
20 Tennessee:
Location: Discovery Center, 502 SE Broad St., Murfree Spring, near downtown Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN 37130-4237.
Located on the site of three trails, on a walking trail beside a natural spring which made the trails a necessity in the area.
Title: Ancient Trails
Text:
“Three principal Indian and pioneer trails cut across Rutherford County connecting the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast substantially following animal trails to salt and water. Great South Trail continued to Alabama and Mississippi; Black Fox Trail ran east to the Hiwassee River; and Cisca and St. Augustine main trail and Nickajack branch passed near this marker and ran southeast through Augusta, Georgia
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President Regina East, Tennessee State Regent”
Date of Dedication: 20 November 2002
21 Tennessee:
Location: Warrior State Park, on Duck Island, right at the start of the walking path around the island. 490 Hemlock Rd., Kingsport, Roane Co., TN 37663-2073
Title: Great Indian Warrior Trading Path (The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road)
Text:
“The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to /august, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/ Warrior Paths, Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA & VA and the 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722, opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization. In VA, at the Great Salt Lick, the Path forked and to the West and into TN was known as the Great Wilderness Road to Nashville.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration”
Date of Dedication: 1 February 2003
22 Texas:
Location: 1936 North St., Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches Co., TX 75962-3940; marker is placed at the Old Stone Fort located on the Stephen F. Austin University campus. Location is in “Deep East Texas”. If traveling west on Interstate 10, site is due north of Houston on US Hwy 59, not far from the Louisiana border.
Title: Ancient Paths, Camino de los Tejas
Text: “At contact, Europeans found that Native American communities and regions were connected by trails. The major trail in Texas was known to its colonizers as the Camino de Arriba and El Camino real and today as Texas 21, ran from Mexico northeastward across Texas to the Caddo (Tejas) Indian settlements in eastern Texas and western Louisiana. The principle Caddo settlements were located at the roads’ intersection with streams and north- south trails. In the nineteenth century, this road was the major route followed by the Anglo-American settlers westward to Texas.
National Society daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 31 January 2003
23 Texas:
Location: Riverside Park, 476 Mc Cright Drive, Victoria, Victoria Co., TX 77901- 2308; south of Tonkawa Bank on the Guadalupe River at what is now known as Grover’s Bend. Victoria is southwest of Houston by a couple of hours.
Title: Old La Bahia Road
Text:
“This Louisiana trade route, a branch of Camino Read, connected New Spain, San Antonio, and Louisiana and was a major Spanish Colonial Trail after 1757, before Anglo- American settlement in the 1820’s. By 1749, the Spanish mission north of Victoria was moved to Goliad, Texas, and the traffic shifted south to a ford located one mile west of this marker. A Spanish outpost and Indian burial ground were found on the marker site. The ford was a boundary after 1824 when Don Martin de Leon established the colony of Guadalupe Victoria.
Erected by the Daniel Braman Chapter and The National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 13 May 2003
24 Utah:
Location: To the left of the entrance of the Donner-Reed Museum, 90 N. Cooley St., Grantsville, Tooele Co., UT 84029. Located at the corner of Cooley Street and Clark Street, one block north of Main Street.
Title: The Cherokee Trail
Text:
“The Cherokee Trail is the longest branch of the California National Historic Trail. It originates in Arkansas and Oklahoma. The trail crosses Kansas and Wyoming East to West, and in Colorado, South to North. In 1849, the Evans/Cherokee Wagon Train came through this area on their way to the California gold fields, merging with the California Trail in Wyoming. In Utah, they traveled around the South end of the Great Salt Lake, taking the “Hastings Cut-Off, “ one of the few to take this route since the Donner party in 1846.
Erected by the Utah State Society and the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Project of the 2000-2003 administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: April-May 2003
25 Vermont:
Location: Middlebury, Addison Co., VT 05753, on the banks of the Otter Creek at the Iron Works
Title: Ancient Paths
Text: “Vermont is crossed by a complete system of ancient major routes from the Lake Champlain Valley to the Connecticut River Valley leading eventually to the sea. Paths were firs made by migrating herds of animals searching for salt, and later by Native Americans as they hunted, traded, and made contact with neighboring tribes. These Paths were widened by the early Europeans as they migrated and settled. The trail along the Otter Creek, with its popular portage, was known as “The Indian Road.” Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River were major north-south paths. Other streams served as east-west connections.
Placed in memory of Mrs. Charles (Ruth) McCarty, State Regent Erected by the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-2003 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 14 June 2003
26 Virginia:
Location: Frontier Culture Museum, 1290 Richmond Avenue, Staunton, VA 24401- 4976
Title: Great Indian Warrior Trading Path (The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road)
Text:
“The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/ Warrior Paths. Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA & VA and he 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722 opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization in VA, the Path passed Winchester, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Lexington, Fincastle, Big Lick, & Rockport as animals searched for salt.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration”
Date of Dedication: 23 October 2001
27 Washington:
Location: Tumwater Historical Park, 802 Deschutes Way SW, Tumwater, Thurston Co., WA 98501. Site was on an ancient trail.
Title: Ancient Trading Path
Text:
“Near this location passed an important traditional trading path. First forged by game animals, later followed by Native Americans, fur-traders from the Hudson’s Bay Company, and American pioneers who established a permanent settlement here in 1845. Known as he Cowlitz Trail, it was the overland route between Puget Sound and Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River, where it linked with eastern trails.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 5 October 2002
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West Virginia:
Location: North Queens Street, Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., WV 25401 Off Exit 16E onto Edwin Miller Blvd., the street continues into North Queens Street. Straight ahead at the light that turns into Queens Street is a seafood restaurant; the marker is right there.
Title: Great Indian Warrior Trading Path (The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road)
Text:
“The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed though here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Augusta, GA. Laid on ancient animal and Native American Trading/ Warrior Paths, Indian treaties among the Governors of NY, PA, & VA and the 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 and 1722 opened the Colonial Backcountry for peaceful settlement and colonization in WV, the Path passed Martinsburg as salt and game were sought.
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-3 Administration”
Date of Dedication: 11 August 2002
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Wisconsin:
Location: 228 Hamilton Road, Cedarburg, Ozaukee Co., WI 53012-2905 Hamilton Historic District, in the Hamilton Park parking lot, about 20 miles north of Milwaukee, 0.1 mi. north of Green Bay Road, on the left when traveling north.
Title: Ancient Paths
Text: “In our ancient past, Wisconsin was crossed by a system of trails first forged by deer and elk as they migrated in search of good weather, food and salt. Native Americans used the Paths as they hunted, traded, and made war in troubled times. Some Paths included water routes and foot paths of the natives which tended to follow the high ground between marshes or wetlands. Colonists and immigrants moved westward searching for land, furs and opportunities. They used these Paths while improving them for horses and wagons. The Green Bay Trail was such a Path. Erected by the Wisconsin State Society & National Society Daughters of the American Colonists. Project of the 2000-2003 Administration Mary Ann Groome Hepler, National President”
Date of Dedication: 29 October 2003
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