Great Indian Warrior Trading Path - Warriors Path State Park - Kingsport, TN - Ancient Traces and Roads on Waymarking.com

From the TN Encyclopedia of History and Culture, the Warriors Path park name reflects the fact that ancient Native American trails along the Holston River both to and from Long Island passed through the park's boundaries. Likely route heading into Virginia is now under the Fort Patrick Henry Lake, which is created by the TVA dam.

Sign Text:
Great Indian Warrior Trading Path
(The Great Philadephia Wagon Road)
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 governers of NY, PA, and VA and the 19 chiefs of Irquois 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.

Sign is located in Warriors Path State Park on Duck Island right at the start of the walking path around the island.

Feature Discription: Warriors Path State Park Web address for the route: [Web Link] Beginning of the road: New York End of the road: Charleston, SC Secondary Web Address: Not listed

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