Old Connecticut Path

The maps that show it

• Native Routes documented route corridors — Native Routes, 2026 · 115 km of the line, compiled from published accounts
• Connecticut trails, c. 1625 — Mathias Spiess, 1930 · 85 km of the line
• The earliest Bay Path, 1642 (Chase) — Levi B. Chase, 1901 · 64 km of the line
• Indian trails about Springfield, 1911 (Wright) — Harry Andrew Wright, 1911 · 14 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].