Indian Thoroughfares of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, based on Hutchins (Archer Butler Hulbert, Historic Highways of America vol.…
Archer Butler Hulbert’s map of the Indian trails between Lake Erie and the Ohio, after Hutchins: the Great Trail, the Mahoning, Scioto–Beaver, Muskingum and Monongahela trails, the Lake Shore trail, and the towns of the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees and Mingoes.
Source
| Map | Historic highways of America |
|---|---|
| Author | Archer Butler Hulbert, 1902 |
| Archive | Internet Archive |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1902 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 27 km (RMS 7.7 km at 9 control points). Placed by hand in a map-queue session and approved by a person. If something sits in the wrong place, members can fix it with Fix placement on the map. |
| Method | Placed by hand: a first-order polynomial fit to 9 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.0, updated 2026-09-30 |
| Covers | Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (2.1 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (5411 × 3534; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (2.3 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (2.8 MB)
Project Homeland
This map is open for tracing into Project Homeland, one map of the trail network melded from every traced source. Members trace a trail by clicking along it: Trace a trail on the map.
Changelog
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 9 places. From the Native Routes sources register; the map across two pages of Hulbert’s Historic Highways of America, vol. 2 (1902), Internet Archive, joined at the gutter.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; the map across two pages of Hulbert’s Historic Highways of America, vol. 2 (1902), Internet Archive, joined at the gutter
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: Internet Archive
Control points
The full list of control points with residuals is in control-points.geojson. Historic names indexed for search: names.geojson.
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