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beast ward to Mineral Springs before cr< I leaving the Klorida parishes. Moreover, thc register of tlie State Land Office si in 1811, operated a ferry on the Pearl Ri kLca Creek, hut this crossing is not identi jn’s Road."1 Both thc Melish map and t Iy a road from Baton Rouge going nori £ Amite before joining with thc St. Fr Again, however, this does not fit thc [10 be known as thc Cencral Wilkinson R H the appeal ancc of government townsh IWadc between 1820 and 1850, that one cl i Rouge to Springfield and from that poi invillc. Despite thc lack of evidence thc township maps, a letter written fr 18, 1RI2, mentions that a road had be [Stoddert to Baton Rouge. Unfommatel) icatc thc route.’11
sral Carroll Road” came into existence |12. After thc Battle of New Orleans in Thomas's two thousand Kentucky in Coffee's mounted brigade of Tenne: trthc well-established road along thc Miss [then northeasterly along thc Natchez ’ William Carroll’s Second Division irer, crossed Lake Pontcharrrain and by Halmost due north until they reachcc
troll's route northward, as shown on tl Madisonvillc, Louisiana-Liberty, M between-the Tchcfuncte and Tangi] fifteen miles south of rhe thirty-first ; overland passage was blaz.cd northw: Jty-five miles to thc Choctaw Indian i
’ Mississippi and tlie Florida parishes by John Mi ■Ml, J4, Register of thc State Land Office, Bator *r Joseph Hamilton, Colonial Mobile (Hoston, 1 iW'Wjl, April 5, 12, IRI5.