Great Indian Warrior/Trading Path - Hagerstown, Maryland
Posted by: BruceS
N 39° 38.265 W 077° 43.884
18S E 265604 N 4391117
Historical marker for a historic Native American trail in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Waymark Code: WMKFAY
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 04/06/2014
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Text of marker:
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 and 1722, 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