the Occaneechi Trading Path facilitated trade between Native America (and later colonist) communities on the Fall Line and communities in the Piedmont
Source: Yale University Library, Indian Trails of the Southeast (by William E. Myer, 1928)
the Occaneechee Trading Path linked customers near the Chesapeake Bay/Pamlico Sound and the Piedmont/Blue Ridge
Source: Library of Congress, A compleat description of the province of Carolina in 3 parts (by Thomas Nairn, 1711)
the 1755 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia recorded the trading path to the Cherokee and western Carolina tribes, with the former trading place on the Roanoke River at Occaneechee
Source: Library of Congress, A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina (by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, 1755)
a Native American trail connected Currituck to the Cherokee
Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, A new & accurate map of the provinces of North & South Carolina, Georgia &c. (Emanuel Bowen, 1747)