Immigration & Migration Paths
Great Wagon Road, Tidewater ports, and corridors into and out of Virginia.
People moved into Virginia through Tidewater ports, along the Great Wagon Road into the Valley, as German and Scots-Irish settlers, and through later industrial and military migration. They also left—for North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, the Deep South, and beyond. Track both inbound ethnicity patterns and outbound migration when a surname vanishes.