Great Wagon Road

Great Wagon Road After 1730, the Great Wagon Road was extended 800 miles from Philadelphia to Augusta, Ga., via Hagerstown, Md., the Shenandoah Valley, Salisbury, Salem, and Charlotte in N.C., and Chester and Newberry in S.C. The Wilderness Road met it at Roanoke, Va. It was the principal highway for southern frontier expansion.