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In 1722 Governor Spotswood's treaty with the Indians was ratified, keeping them west of the Blue Ridge Mountains and north of the Potomac River. Early settlers found Indian trails in Loudoun County and turned them into roads. Loudoun County still has miles of unpaved roads, but modern gravel roads do not convey the early roads' alternately dry and dusty or muddy conditions. Those roads were used for commercial trade, and a large part of General Braddock's army struggled over them on its long trip to Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, in 1755 during the French and Indian Wars. Vestal's Gap Road extended from Alexandria to Winchester in the Valley of Virginia.
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