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I came upon this article and added a few wikilinks before realizing that this wasn't the Jacob Bowman I wanted to insert wikilinks in an article about Western Pennsylvania. Possibly a more important contemporary Jacob Bowman was a merchant of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Since I have no idea when I might have time to create the alternate article, or finish correcting this one, I'm writing this note. Strasburg, where this Virginia and Carolina merchant Jacob Bowman was from, is in the Shenandoah Valley, which was being colonized by Europeans in the late 18th century. A major wagon road ran down from Frederick, Maryland through the Shenandoah, along the route known as the Great Indian Warpath (among other titles). Settlers could cross the Appalachian mountains either on another route from Frederick (called Nemacolin's Path, which became the National Road) which led to the Ohio River Valley at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, or a route many miles further south, at the end of the Shenandoah Valley, through Fort Chiswell, and from there into Tennessee and Kentucky.Jweaver28 (talk) 15:11, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
