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T. H. Breen Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 1, 1997, pp. 22-57 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0015 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424306/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:06 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY The Great Wagon Road by T. H. Breen Map of Virginia (177j), byJoshua Fry and PeterJefferson, surveyors, and ThomasJeffreys, engraver. Collection ofthe Museum ofEarly Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 22 his is the place you're looking for," Darrell Lester shouts, stand- ing in the middle of a small cow pasture. Behind him flows the south branch of the Mayo River, a broad stream made unusually shallow by an early spring drought. Bill McGee, Tony Kelly, and I have tried to keep up with Darrell, but a barbed-wire fence at the edge of the field slows our progress. "That's where the Moravians came down from the Valley of Virginia," Darrell says, pointing to a large bramble- covered ditch about ten-feet deep and twenty-five-feet wide that runs up a rocky hill into the nearby woods. This ditch is the Great Wagon Road. Late on the evening of 1 2 November 1753, fifteen Moravians forded the Mayo River precisely
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
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