WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — The Great Wagon Road, weaving its way through North Carolina, was a critical corridor in U.S. history and even shaped settlement in the western Piedmont.
The route from Philadelphia to Bethabara, a historic community in the Winston-Salem area, is the way many original settlers came to the region.
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Jacob Crews is the assistant historic parks supervisor at Bethabara. He says the Moravian settlers of Bethabara came via the Great Wagon Road. He also says many people likely have ancestral ties to people who used the corridor.
“If they settled here before or during the revolution, they came down the Great Wagon Road, pretty much guaranteed,” Crews said…