Great Indian Warrior/Trading Path - Hagerstown, Maryland - Signs of History on Waymarking.com

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Great Indian Warrior/
Trading Path

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 19 chiefs of Iroquois League of Five Nations in 1685 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

Group that erected the marker: <p style="text-align: center;"><em>National Society Daughters of the American Colonists Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary: 401 Museum Dr Hagerstown, Maryland URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: Not listed

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