Immigration & Migration Paths
Great Wagon Road, Highland Scots, Moravians, and corridors out of North Carolina.
People moved into North Carolina along the Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania and Virginia, through coastal ports, as Highland Scots into the Cape Fear, as Moravians into Wachovia, and as settlers into former Cherokee lands. They also left—for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, and mill towns. Track both inbound ethnicity patterns and outbound migration when a surname vanishes.