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Early Thoroughfares Westward, No. 4.
Name: Nemacolin's Path.
Termini: Potomac and Ohio rivers.
Route: Main early routes westward from Virginia and Maryland converged on the Potomac at Wills Creek; ran west through the mountains passing upper Youghiogheny at "Little Crossings," Great Meadows, Gist's Plantation on Mount Braddock; crossed the main Youghiogheny at "Stewart's Crossings" (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), and ran down the "Point" to present site of Pittsburg.
Remarks: Most important route during the old French War to the Ohio valley; used as a traders' path from earliest times. For maps, see Sparks's Writings of Washington, also, Middleton's map with Atkinson's description, Olden Time, vol. ii., p. 544.
