[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You know, this is a little off-topic, but what amazes me was that back then there were no highways or road signs. You traversed over the countryside before abruptly hitting some people and then a village. Just how in the Hell did the colonists get around and know where they were at back then?

[imardmd1]

Don't kid yourself. They had surveyors then, good ones, and these surveyors drew maps.

George Washington was a surveyor, and mapped a lot of western Virginia and Ohio.

It was on the basis of these maps of large tracts that land was bought and sold, without having to argue about it.

[KC_for_Freedom]

I was driving around there during a business trip and got lost in the 1980’s. I believe they remove all the road signs to confound the British.

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Just how in the Hell did the colonists get around and know where they were at back then?

People didn't travel much. There weren't that many roads, either. And the names of the country roads were usually the name of the town they went to. If there weren't any unexpected forks you sort of knew how to get where you wanted to go.

[oldbill]

they used GPS.