A Map of Some Wilderness Trails and Early Indian Villages of Pennsylvania and Ohio (Charles A. Hanna, 1910)
Charles A. Hanna's map of the trails the Pennsylvania traders followed to the Ohio country, in red with the years they were used, and the Indian villages with the dates they stood, from the Delaware to the Maumee.
Source
| Map | The wilderness trail; or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny path, with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones |
|---|---|
| Author | Hanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1863-1950, 1911 |
| Archive | Internet Archive |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1911 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 11 km (RMS 3.8 km at 41 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 second-order polynomial fit to 41 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.0, updated 2026-09-30 |
| Covers | Pennsylvania, Ohio |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (4.4 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (5555 × 2715; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (5.9 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (4.8 MB)
Project Homeland
This map’s trails are traced into Project Homeland, one map of the trail network melded from every traced source, where they are compared with the other maps’ lines. Members can trace more of them: Trace a trail on the map.
Changelog
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 41 places. From the Native Routes sources register; the folding map in Hanna's The Wilderness Trail (1911), Internet Archive.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; the folding map in Hanna's The Wilderness Trail (1911), Internet Archive
- 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.
Something on this map sits in the wrong place? Members can show where with Fix placement on the map — confirmed fixes are tested against the map’s other control points each night and credited here. For anything else, report a problem.
Talk about this map
Start a thread All discussions
Know this map? Join free to add field notes, fix where a place sits on the map, and help find more maps.Join free