Trading Path

… a colonial trading route dating from the seventeenth century from Petersburg, Va., to the Catawba and Waxhaw Indians. One branch entered North Carolina in Granville County and another in Warren County. They converged near the present site of Oxford and followed a SW route through Granville, Durham, Orange, Alamance, Guilford, Randolph, Davidson, Rowan, and Cabarrus Counties. At about the present site of Concord, the road split, with a W branch leading through present Charlotte to the Catawba Indians. The E branch led almost directly S through Union County to the Waxhaw Indians. The Trading Path appears on the Collet map, 1770, and the Mouzon map, 1775.