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Central Trail

The Haudenosaunee road through the Longhouse, from the Mohawk to the Seneca and Lake Erie.

Also written: Path through the country of the Five Nations · Indian path from Chenussio by Canadaragey, Canadasegy, Cayuga and Onondaga to Oneida · Road up the Mohawk, Fort Hunter to Fort Stanwix · Path down the Mohawk from Oriskany · Indian path from the Niagara by Canawagus to Chenussio

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The maps that show it

Where two or more maps draw the trail within each other’s uncertainty, the line is their average weighted by each map’s accuracy; where only one map shows it, its line is dashed and its corridor is that map’s accuracy. A compiled corridor drawn from a map counts as that map, not as a second witness. How it’s done, and where it may be wrong: how this map was made.

Whose lands it crosses

Lands this trail crosses were ceded to the United States by treaty or law; the present-day nations associated with those cessions are:

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From Project Homeland v0.5.2, a draft built from colonial-era and later maps: the names and lines are those mapmakers’, until nations’ own knowledge corrects them. Corrections: [email protected].

In the network443 km in 23 stretches
Seen on more than one map322 km (73%)
Documented for1700–1779
RegionNortheast