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The most heavily traveled road in Colonial America passed through here, linking areas from the Great Lakes to Georgia. Laid on animal trails and Native American trading and warrior paths, it was opened to peaceful settlement in the colonial backcountry and to colonization in Georgia by treaties in 1685 and 1722 among the Governors of New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia and nineteen chiefs of the Iroquois League of Five Nations. From Carolina, the path had two branches, a western branch to Augusta and an eastern branch to Savannah, formed to find salt and game.
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Savannah, Georgia · United States
