What does this have to do with a road in Henry County? Back in 1753 there were very few roads (paths?). They were mostly Indian trails widened  by European immigrants pushing the frontier westward.  As more people settled along the road residents assumed responsibility for keeping it passable - smoothing out ruts, etc. When the Moravian "single brothers" left Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and headed south towards North Carolina they followed one of these paths down the Shenandoah Valley. When they reached Roanoke the road branched - one route to the southeast - across the Blackwater River to Boone's Mill, west of present day Rocky Mount to Callaway and Ferrum and on to Henry. This branch was known as the "Morgan Bryant" Road after the man who had widened the old path enough to drive a cart over it on his way to the Yadkin Valley in 1740.

The quiet little village of Henry sits just on the Franklin/Henry County border.  It is here that Sally's Trek begins.  Henry

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