Indian Paths of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Paul A. W. Wallace 1965 (1971, 1987, 1993)

Path Name Great Path ID33 Key Number 210417

Page Numbers 62-63 Start Pittsburgh Associated Dates N/A End Detriot Indian VillagesCrow's Town Forts Fort Pitt Historic Towns Avalon, Sewickley, Logstown (Legionville, two miles north of Ambridge), Conway (Crow's Town), Rochester (Logan's Town), Beaver, Blackhawk, Historic Features N/A Historic Roads Land Features N/A River Crossing Allegheny River (at Pittsburgh) River Following Ohio River, Beaver River (mouth of), Historic Accounts This path was a much well traveled highway. Archer Butler Hulbert in his Red-Man's Roads: the Indian Thorough- fares of the Central West", calls it "the most important trail in the central west., the main thoroughfare from Fort Pitt to Fort Detriot. It was the western extension." he contuines, "of the continental route from the seaboard to the northwest, meeting Nemacolin's Path which came from Fort Cumberland at Fort Pitt." Our best knowledge of this route comes from Thomas Hutchins in his "Description of part of the Country Westward of the River Ohio, 1765" tells what he had seen on the Pennsylvania end of the path: "from Fort Pitt to big Beaver Creek by land is 28 miles the path is mostly along the River side and corsses a Number of small Ridges that Broder on the River-- Little Beaver Creek is 16 miles further, for the frist two Miles the Woods is very Levell at the End which is a Run [Twomile Run] and a very Steep & Difficult Ridge which may be Avoided bu inclining about half a Mile to the Right of the Path, the Country then is made up of small Broken Hills all the way to Little Beaver Creek, the Descent to which is Steep, this Creek is 60 yards wide and has a very good fording...". Edward G. Williams has transferred this map onto a modern map. According to John Heckewelder's map of Ohio Country (1796) from Tescarawas, the main branch of the path went on "to Sandusky and Detriot" while another branch went south to "the Shawnee Towns on Sciota and Miami". Colonel Henry Bouquet, when leading his expeditionary forces in 1764 to Coshocton (for the treaty to end Pontiac's War) followed the Great Path as fas as Tuscarawas. Other N/A Intersections With Other Paths Nemacolin's Path