The Great Valley Road of Virginia chronicles the story of one of America's oldest, most historic, and most geographically significant roads. Emphasized througho

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawe

Identifies important overland wagon roads used by Americans from about 1735-1815.

From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for th

The valley is that of the Shenadoah in Virginia, where a Scottish minister settles with his family in 1735.