[beeleaf]

Yep, could be the Dan (south of Charlotte Court House). You can see where it connects in this map:

http://www.bikeheartland.org/staunton-river-loop-map.html

Here is a neat map of how the whole river spreads out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RoanokeRiverWatershed.png

Pretty cool how it connects the places where our families live(d).

[sammarroq]

Linda wrote: We live near there, Felicia and I have gone on trips trying to catch a vibe. We canoed from Staunton River State park down to the spot where the Roanoke converges with the Staunton River.

I just looked at Google maps, topo version, and the Staunton river doesn’t flow near Charlotte Court House that I can see. It’s the Roanoke that is up that way. I’m confused. I had luck contacting Dr. Briceland before. That book is wonderful. Get ahold of it. He makes so much sense of the scraps of historical evidence. It comes into focus.

I really want to know where that bluff is and where that chief’s town was. We can find it, and Felicia will get her thing going on and we’ll find out all we ever wanted to know. Can’t call it historical research, but it will all be three dimensional. Or should I say six dimensional.

I will see if I can get the book, thanks Linda.

Shirley

[Linda]

Pretty cool how it connects the places where our families live(d).

That’s a deep statement. Sometimes when I pass over these rivers I wish I could travel down them in a boat. Those were the main thoroughfares, and the really interesting thing is that they haven’t changed all that much. If you had lived there 300 years ago in a village along the banks and were still haunting the place, you would still recognize it. And if we travelled along there we’d be seeing what was the important part of the world back then. It’s remained relatively intact.

Now the thoroughfares are our highways. Then the thoroughfares were the rivers. Everybody lived along the creeks. They were the waterworks and sanitation systems.

Of course a particular watershed would be the domain of a particular tribe. Makes perfect sense. And any man worth his salt would know which branch of the river to take to get where he was going.

[Linda]

Oh, I forgot to say, Briceland’s book doesn’t seem to be available at any of the online bookstores I checked. It was a scholarly publication, it should be in any university, or available by interlibrary loan.

[sammarroq]

Linda wrote: Oh, I forgot to say, Briceland’s book doesn’t seem to be available at any of the online bookstores I checked. It was a scholarly publication, it should be in any university, or available by interlibrary loan.

Looks like the book may be hard to come by…I did find it listed at berea.edu…something more interesting is that they offer Appalachian study courses on line. How interesting they must be:) I got to meet my guncle freddy before he passed and he told me about when they would carry a barrel of sugar up the mountain to make shine…he said that when my dad first tasted it, he eyes rolled back in his head and he fell off the log, which he was sitting. They were hard times, but families and friends were a community, which gave them strength.

Here’s the link for Berea, I would love to take these couses, but no time now.

http://www.berea.edu

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