The Road to Battle
See that flat depression in the ground? That’s the surviving imprint of the Great Wagon Road, a route used by thousands of settlers from the 1740s to the early 1800s.
The road began in Philadelphia, carrying Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish and Moravians westward and then down the Shenandoah Valley and across North Carolina.
In South Carolina, it divided into an eastern fork that passed through Camden and a western fork that continued into Georgia.
It was the interstate highway of its day, and in August 1780, the Great Wagon Road led to battle as two armies unwittingly converged here on a moonlit night.
Marker can be reached from Flat Rock Road (South Carolina Route 58).
Courtesy hmdb.org
