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A road petition mentioning the road to Maddock’s Mill... |
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Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
...(outside of Hillsborough, NC) and the Trading Path; from the meeting of the Commissioners of Roads, Monday, August 4, 1755
On motion of Joseph Mattock requesting that a road may be laid out the
Nearest and most Convenient way from the Court House to his Mill on
Enoe & thence to the Trading path. The same Granted provided the
said Road is opened and kept in Repair by the Petitioners.
From Minutes of the [Inferior] Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, Vol. I, fol. 38, p. 75. |
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A dispatch from William Tryon to Hugh Waddell |
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Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
Sandy Creek Camp May 26th 1771
As most of the Inhabitants on the North side of Deep River and many on
the South side, in the whole amounting to above thirteen hundred have
come into Camp and Submitted themselves to Government, and your
Continuing near Salisbury can be of no real advantage to the Public
service, I am to require you to join me as soon as possible with the
Forces under your Command at the upper Ford of Deep River, where the
Trading Path crosses.
I have not heard from you since your Dispatches of the 10th. |
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The Trading Path in Alamance County, a Beginning |
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Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
The following essays suggest some starting-points for locating,
studying and preserving the Trading Path routes and stream crossings in
the Alamance County area. Portions are extracted from chapter 1,
“Places and People” in Carole Watterson Troxler and William Murray
Vincent, Shuttle & Plow: A History of Alamance County, North
Carolina (Alamance County Historical Association 1999) with permission
of the latter for read-only presentation.
Link here to 18th century maps by Moseley, Fry & Jefferson,Collet and Mouzon to accompany the essays.
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The Roads Made the Town: The Approaches to Hillsborough in Pre-Modern Times |
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Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
Hillsborough, North Carolina is a Trading Path town. That is, it came
into being because of its position on the Trading Path where it crosses
the Eno River. Good river crossings, fords, attracted permanent
residents to succor travellers who of necessity had to use the fords
over the Eno at Hillsborough. Resident ford keepers hosted stranded
travellers and assited with the passage of cargo across the fords.
The commercial attractiveness of a given ford determined how heavily it
was used and, therefore, how much value it might have for residents
near it. Around the point which became Hillsborough there were several
fords yielding easy access to good trails to important places. Owing to
its fords, the spot which became Hillsborough is a geopolitical
"chokepoint" through which much of the Southeastern Piedmonts
commercial traffic had to pass. This was why towns arose at the place
which became Hillsborough.
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