By Linda Tancs
The Great Wagon Road, also known as the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, is a historic path in the eastern United States that followed an ancient Native American trade route known as the Great Indian Warrior Trading Path. It enabled 18th-century travel from Philadelphia westward and then south into the backcountry of Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. You’ll have to imagine that route via the interstate that exists today. Namely, Interstate 81 follows a significant portion of the wagon road from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, south through the Shenandoah Valley.


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