Occaneechi Path - - Trail walking and Trading Partnerships of My Family Ongoing To Today
Many of the settlers of South Carolina along the Lower Cherokee Traders' Path reached there by way of the Occaneechi Path. It was also a way to reach the Augusta, Georgia area. The Occaneechi Path or Trading Path was heavily used by traders, but sparsely used by white settlers before 1748. After that time Virginians from around Petersburg and inland southern Virginia would have used the road to move southwest. Also some people from southern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, eastern Maryland, and northern Virgina may have used remnants of the Path to reach the Yadkin River settlements (Daniel Boone), and the Waxhaws areas of North Carolina. https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Occaneechi_Path#Settlers_and_Records Some of my Pearl River County, MS trail friend's elders were trail walkers too. The names Moody, Gipson, Bass, and Shivers were trail walking from the SC section to Augusta, GA and onto MS/LA. Here's a Thigpen who ended up in LA via the SC trek. My P