truly old roads from before Alabama was a state, there were at least four early roads that converged near Ardmore

their routes are highlighted here on a detail of the Limestone County 1914 Soil Survey Map. 

With the exception of the Mooresville Road, there's little reason to doubt the other three were viewed and marked along ancient trails, mostly established by animals following the paths of least resistance between their intended destinations.

 Along the right-hand edge of this image would have been a significant ancient trail that had fallen out of use long before 1815, but is likely picked up by the Elkton Road (green line).

 The earliest survey found that may have been of that road is from 1802, when Col Thomas Butler was commissioned to nominate a route for the first federal commerce highway, and he followed a "road no longer in use", starting about the intersection of today's Page Road and Post Road in Belle Meade, southwest of Nashville, passing through here, and ending at a ford on the Tennessee River, probably near the mouth of Indian Creek.

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