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38296
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The highway as North Carolina’s colonists knew it was the primary pathway for many. Covering 700 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to August, Georgia, this road largely traveled by foot played a pivotal role in creating some of the state’s metros and major cities. Commemorating the importance of the Great Wagon Road are items in the Rowan Museum such as a wagon made by John Israel Nissen, descendant of original travelers of the road. A personal sign of the road’s importance is on display at the Knox Farm: the rim of one of The Great Wagon’s wheels. John Knox’s eighth generation descendants can’t attest the rim was on their ancestor’s wagon; they only know it’s always been part of the farm’s landscape.
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Indian paths--Great Wagon Road; Colonial North Carolina paths--Great Wagon Road; Great Wagon Road; Charlotte--History; Winston-Salem--History; Salisbury--History; Rowan Museum (Salisbury); Rowan County--History; Frontier roads--North Carolina--Great Wagon Road; Frontier roads--Great Philadelphia Wagon Road; Stokes County--History; North Carolina--Warrior's Path; Bethabara; Bethania--History; Revolutionary War--Great Wagon Road; American Revolution--Great Wagon Road; Colonial North Carolina--Travel ; Colonial North Carolina--Transportation
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4374
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In the winter of 1753, the Moravian church in Pennsylvania sent twelve young men to the Piedmont section of North Carolina to start a settlement which they called Bethabara. This village gave way in the 1760s to the newer town of Salem. Several of Bethabara's original buildings and stone foundations remain. Today the state's first Moravian settlement is a historic site and city park.
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