America’s Historic Roads
Puzzle 02 · Routes Before the Motorcar · Page 14 in print
Great Indian Warpath
The Great Indian Warpath split in eastern Tennessee into branches toward the Ohio and Chesapeake.
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The words
Catawba
Catawba people, users of the trail system.
Chattanooga
Chattanooga area in the Great War Path network.
Chesapeake
Name of the eastern branch through the Valley of Virginia.
Chiaha
Chiaha, a chiefdom on the trail network. Chiefdom reached by de Soto on the Great War Path trail system.
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Creek
Creek people in the southern country connected by the Great Indian War Path.
Fort Loudoun
Fort Loudoun in Tennessee at the road junction.
French Broad
French Broad River along the Catawba branch. River followed by a branch of the Great War Path network.
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Holston
Holston River, site of Cherokee Long Island near the Warpath crossing.
Kanawha
River valley followed by the Ohio Branch.
Lake Erie
Northern reach of the Ohio Branch.
Long Island
Long Island of the Holston, a Cherokee strategic place.
New River
River reached by the Ohio Branch.
Ohio Branch
Named western branch of the Great Indian Warpath.
Shenandoah
Valley through which the War Path ran.
West Virginia
State crossed briefly by the Chesapeake Branch of the Great Indian Warpath.
Sources
- Discover US 11: The Warrior PathClio
- Native American TrailsTennessee Encyclopedia (Tennessee Historical Society; entry by Ann Toplovich)
- Indian Trailse-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia
- Native American TrailsTennessee Historical Society
- Long Island of the Holston River Historical MarkerClio