LIN 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Great Wagon Road, Linguistic Map, Mantra
7 Sep 2018
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The geographic space of appalachia is too large to be one place, one people, one language. Even though word processors still don"t like englishes , it"s a much better description of what"s happening. In other words, diversity is the name of the game. The original colonies sort of stop at the mountains. Europeans make way into western pa by 1730 and continue populating appalachia through 1830 (north ga) Emigrants from ulster moved from chesapeake, charleston, delaware valley to. Path= cumberland valley (pa) > pittsburgh > ohio valley > virginia. Or potomac > shenandoah river > great wagon road > valley of virginia. Also farming works better not on a mountain . Thus, people first settled in the valleys. People didn"t move to the highlands until a later generation. Constant migration and population fluidity in the region. Yes, it has historically been difficult to travel in through appalachia (at least before modern roads)
