West's Crossroads / Donald H. Holland House

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This crossroads, long owned by the West family, is the junction of the Georgetown and Porter Bridge Roads, both of which appear on Robert Mills's 1825 Atlas of S.C. In early 1865 opposing forces camped nearby as Gen. M.C. Butler's ...

Roads To The West

The Santa Fe Trail

The Santa Fe Trail began in 1821 when William Becknell led a small group of men on a trading expedition from frontier Missouri to colonial Santa Fe. Mexico had recently declared its independence from Spain and abolished ...

Roads West

During the 1770s, Samuel Pepper established a

ferry crossing nearby which opened a transportation, route during the late colonial and early

national periods linking the resources of the

West with the population centers in the East.

A century later, the Norfolk & Western Railroad

designed ...

First Roads to the West

Before the Europeans, only Indian trails led through virgin forests that once stretched beyond the horizon. About 1750 Nemacolin, a Delaware Indian, blazed a trail past here for the Ohio Company. Four years later, Virginia militia under Lt. Col. George ...