Lower Creek Trading Path

The maps that show it

• Southeastern trail system, 1928 — William Edward Myer, 1928 · 520 km of the line
• Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek, 1773 — Bernard Romans (with David Taitt and George Gauld), 1773 · 321 km of the line
• Southern Indian trade paths, c. 1770 — Joseph Purcell and J. R. Swanton, 1922 · 319 km of the line
• Native Routes documented route corridors — Native Routes, 2026 · 275 km of the line, compiled from published accounts
• Georgia, 1779 (Universal Magazine) — The Universal Magazine, 1779 · 249 km of the line

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.

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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].