Migration Routes, Roads & Trails » Miscellaneous Trails

FamilySearch Wiki - King's Highway

1664 from Boston, Massachusetts to Savannah, Georgia, background history, route, and map.

FamilySearch Wiki - Lake Shore Path

From Buffalo, New York along the south shore of Lake Erie.

FamilySearch Wiki - Lower Cherokee Traders' Path

An ancient Indian path that connected Catawba Indian villages in the Waxhaws (Charlotte area) in North Carolina with Cherokee Indian "Lower Towns" in South Carolina and Georgia (Tugaloo) used by whites starting in the 1740s with background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Michigan Road

One of the earliest roads in Indiana.

FamilySearch Wiki - Mihoaukee Trail

1820-1835 between Illinois and Wisconsin.

FamilySearch Wiki - Mohawk or Iroquois Trail

About 1722 from Albany to Fort Oswego, New York, an important early British fur trading center, including background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Natchez Trace

Important ancient Indian path used by whites starting 1742 from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - New River and Southern Trail

An ancient Indian path used by whites starting in the 1740s that connected the Yadkin River settlements of North Carolina to the Great Valley Road in Virginia and to the New River Gorge into West Virginia, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Occaneechi Path

A key ancient Indian path and trunk trail that connected the Piedmont region including Chesapeake Bay (Petersburg, VA), Occaneechi Village (Clarksville, VA), the Waxhaws (Charlotte, NC), and Cherokee villages of the Carolinas and Georgia (Augusta, GA). Used by whites starting 1748. Includes background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Old Cherokee Path

An ancient Indian path that connected the Lower Cherokee Indian villages, in particular Tugaloo just southwest of the Savannah River in what is now Georgia (but also villages in South Carolina), with several Indian trails, especially the Great Indian Warpath or Great Valley Road as it was called in Virginia. Used by some whites in the 1750s, but mostly after 1777. Includes background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Old South Carolina State Road

1747 from Charleston to Orangeburg to Columbia to Greenville with exits into North Carolina and Georgia. Includes background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Old Spanish Trail

1829 to mid-1850s trade route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Los Angeles, California, background history, routes, map, and finding setter records (Utah).

FamilySearch Wiki - Secondary Coast Road

1730s or 1740s was a roughly parallel alternate to the King's Highway from Petersburg, Virginia and ended at Charleston County, South Carolina, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Unicoi Trail

Was a pre-colonial Indian trading path connecting the western parts of North and South Carolina with eastern Tennessee. In 1795 settlers began using it, wagons about 1813, and it became a toll road in 1819. Includes background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Upper Road

Or Piedmont Road by the 1740s more inland than the Fall Line Road starting from Fredericksburg, Virginia to Charlotte, North Carolina to Tugaloo, Georgia to Macon, Georgia, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.

Galena Trail and Coach Road

This site discusses the 1825 Galena Trail and its successor, the 1833 Peoria-Galena Coach Road in Illinois. Both alignments followed ancient Native American trails, and were used by early American miners to link the Lead Mine Region of Illinois and Wisconsin with Peoria and southern Illinois. Many old maps, articles and photos are displayed on this website.

Ohio County Info: Pioneer Migration Routes through Ohio

Old Connecticut Path (Wikipedia)

The Old Connecticut Path was the Native American trail that led westward from the area of Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut River Valley.

Southwest Explorations

Early exploration and emigrant trails across Arizona in maps and photographs.

The Goshen Road (Facebook)

It's a 1 man dream to revive original history of Illinois state as an evidence to a connecting link between west America expansion still on map and land of historical events ...never recognized ....forgotten chapter of history of USA.