MDDM Ch. 62 Braddock's Road

[jbor]

614.13 The last Market Roads are crossed ... and finally, Braddock's Road,--
Lingering prolong'd, gazing North and South, for whatever Traffick there
might be ....

    Braddock's Road (1755)

    [...]

    A company of 600 soldiers set out from Ft. Cumberland to widen
    Washington's old road through Maryland, past the ruins of Fort Necessity
    on into western Pennsylvania, moving toward the French stronghold at the
    Forks of the Ohio, site of present-day Pittsburgh. Braddock's road was
    the first road to cross overland through the Appalachian Mountains.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gentutor/trails.html#Braddock

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Egentutor/braddock.html

Perhaps that dream-city of Dixon's, "at some great Confluence of Rivers", is
Pittsburgh after all, as Mark suggested.

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