cartways

Updated: May 28, 2025

The absence of vehicles, except for a coach, a calash and carts, was due perhaps not so much to cost and the necessity for importing them as to the complete lack of passable roads in the Colony. Cartways, which were the worn and widened Indian trails, over which oxen hauled heavy loads, were the open ways over which travel by land could be undertaken.

Annie Lash Jester - Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century