Hi
It would be nice to see a migration record of Carolinas to Alabama for Pike
County.
Thanks
Saundra


Excerpted (in my own words) from the book WINSTON: An Antebellum and Civil
>War History of a Hill County of North Alabama by Dodd:
>
>The early Winston County settlers came in the last wave of settlement in
>Alabama. The earliest settlers came by four basic routes: the "High Town
>Path,"  the "Huntsville Road," the "Southern Trail," and the "backdoor
>routes".  The "High Town Path" was an Indian trail that extended from near
>the present site of Atlanta, GA westward to Mississippi.  Good roads here
>made traveling fairly easy.  The "Huntsville Road" was originally an Indian
>trace.  During the War of 1812, General Andrew Jackson enlarged the trace
>into a road leading from Huntsville through Jones Valley (present site of
>Birmingham) to Tuscaloosa. Both of these roads could accomodate North
>Carolinians, South Carolinians, North Georgians, or Tennesseans.  Settlers
>from the Carolinas could enter the road anywhere between Greenville, SC and
>Asheville NC or travel along the French Broad and Tennessee Rivers to
>Chattanooga.
>The "Southern Trail" by which Georgians and South Carolinians could enter
>the NW corner of Alabama began near Augusta, GA, crossed into Alabama near
>Columbus and continued Northward to the Tombigbee River in Northern
>Mississippi.  The "Back Door" routes included the Natchez Trace, the Gaines
>Road and General Jackson's old Military Road, routes by which settlers from
>Central and West Tennessee and Kentucky could enter.  The Natchez Trace
>travels from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi.
>The Byler Road and the Cheatham Road were the two early roads that brought
>settlers to the county of Winston and other areas of NW Alabama from the
>states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and
>points northward.
From 1850-1860,  the states that contributed the most settlers to Winston
>County, Alabama were Georgia with 119 families and South Carolina with 83
>families.  The totals for 1860 were:
>Alabama, 190; Georgia, 144; South Carolina, 109; North Carolina, 101;
>Tennesssee, 82; Virginia, 22; Maryland, Mississippi & Kentucky, 5 each;
>Illinois, 2; Pennsylvania, Rhode Island & England, 1 each.
>
>In the next posting, I will begin to list the surnames of those individuals
>from each of the above states that could be found in the 1850 & 1860 census
>so if you have someone you have lost during that time period, keep
>watching.  After I have listed the surnames, I will not be posting census
>information as such but will do a lookup for anyone who finds one of their
>surnames in the listings but ONE surname at a time only.
>
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