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Trading Path Preservation Association Proposal 2 6 INTRODUCTION The Trading Path Preservation Association exists today only as a concept. But the concept has broad -based support at the national , state and local levels of government, among related conservation NGOs , and among academics familiar with the importance of the subject. In the coming weeks and months the Trading- Path Association will become a real and vital institution . SUMMARY The Trading Path Preservation Association will preserve what is known as " The Indian Trading Path " as a national heritage treasure . The Trading Path , a corridor of river crossings linked by roads and trails between the James River colonial settlements ( nominally Petersburg , VA ) and the Cherokee country in the Carolinas and Georgia . Interstate Highway 85 approximates its course today . It served Indian commerce prior to European colonization , and it served as one of the principle avenues for European penetration of the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States . Indian and , later, European settlements occupied key points along its course many of which persist to this day . Around them and in towns long abandoned and erased from the map lie much of the history of the Southeastern Piedmont. Preservation of the remnants of The Trading Path will secure archaeologically important materials as yet unstudied , create an unrivaled tool for education about the Piedmont' s peoples and environment, and bring heritage tourism to numerous economically bypassed rural communities in the Trading Path Corridor. This prospectus seeks your support in this startup process . Your endorsement would be invaluable , as would be your active assistance in promoting this project throughout your influential network of heritage preservationists .