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Public Library TOMPKINS COUNTY Navigating A Sea Oe Resources PUBLIC LIBRARY Title: Old Indian Trails in Tompkins County Author: Norris, W. Glenn. Call number: LH-CASE 974.771 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : DeWitt Historical Society of of Tompkins County, 1944., Owner: Ithaca - Tompkins County Public Library Assigned Branch: Ithaca - Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) Collection: Local History (LH) Material type: Book Number of pages: 32 pages Note: The History Center in Tompkins County, who owns the copyright, gave TCPL permission to digitize this book, October 2009. Digitization of this material was made possible with a 2009 grant from the Park Foundation m ~n r- o 5 PUBLIC LIBRARY g ITHACA, N. Y. m OLD INDIAN TRAILS IN TOMPKINS COUNTY c.S ^t 77/ ql Printed by The Wilcox Press Copyright 1944 by W. Glenn Norris OLD INDIAN TRAILS in TOMPKINS COUNTY By W. Glenn Norris Tompkins County Historian Tompkins County Clerk The Empire State, as you love to call it, ivas once laced by our trails . .. trails that <we Bad trod for centuries trails ivorn so deep by the feet of the IROQUOIS that they became your roads of travel, as your possessions eat into those of my people. Your roads still traverse those same lines of communication tvhich bound one part of the Long House to the other. CAYUGA CHIEF WA-0-WA-WA-N6-ONK, OR PETER WILSON Published Under the Auspices of the DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County Ithaca, N. Y. MCMXLIV (o7^AP OF Ithaca s/i owirvq Aboriginal Occupation, Trails, Names and General Appearance Before 1790 JZaid owt toHRin 1944 C ityJ^imits-witH a. few present day land marks indicaired. VILLAGE OCCUPATION //A SITI nr S TRACES OF X CAMP SITE ^/fiySr AREA 0F CULTIVATION "^Jretfen%^' -^ U BURIAL SITE INDIAN TRAILS -S& ^ !& 4jfe Preface Ihave found one of the many interesting aspects of the life of the Indian of antiquity to be his lines of communication, or trails leading from one place to another. These were con stantly changing, but the first white men who entered this locality found them convenient and direct aids to travel. Later, when the first settlers came in, many of these paths were widened into cart roads, and they became, in time, some of our im portant local highways. Among the Tompkins County roads that today follow the routes where once trod only the aboriginal inhabitants Slaterville- and the wild animals of the forest, are parts of the Brooktondale road, Elmira road, South Lansing-Lake Ridge road, Spencer Street, Floral Avenue, Linn Street, upper and lower State Street, part of South Tioga Street, and many others. The written history of a community is usually measured from the advent of its first settlers. Previous to that time, the historian often gropes in darkness as he seeks to find a way into the dim recesses of earlier history. Tracing out these generally unknown and forgotten trails of the red men has been a fascinating study ; a search of many years for positive facts which could be substantiated. Old maps, manuscripts, journals, and other historical works have yielded a share in this under taking; also, the author has personally explored and observed all the routes herein described. These articles are the result of an untiring interest in the region in which most of my life has been spent. From our unwritten past has come the stories of the Indian Trails of Tompkins County. It is with deep appreciation that I acknowledge the cooperation of the Tompkins County Board of Supervisors, and the DeWitt His torical Society of Tompkins County, whose assistance made this publication possible. I wish to express my indebtedness to Professor Harold W. Thompson, Professor Benton S. Monroe, and Mr. Ralph C. Smith, members of the advisory committee of the Historical Society ; and to Mr. John G. Brooks, the President. To all these, and to my wife Edna Norris, who assisted in the preparation, and to many friends who have aided me, especially Mr. Ernest W. Mack, who photo graphed the scenes for this booklet, I gratefully dedicate this volume, the first publication of the Historical Society. * 5 ^ CONTENTS Preface 5 Introduction 7 I The Warriors' Trail 9 II The Catherine's Town-Cayuga Lake Trail.. 13 III Owego-Dryden-Onondaga Trail 19 IV The Taughannock Trail 22 V The Danby Trail 25 The Inlet-West Danby Trail VI The Pony Hollow Trail 27 VII The Ithaca-Dryden Trail 29 The Cayuga-Onondaga Tribal Boundary ILLUSTRATIONS I Middaugh Woods Near Brooktondale, N. Y. 8 II Site of Coreorgonel, Indian Village 12 III Site of Inlet Creek Crossing 18 IV Entrance to Prospect Valley 21 V The Valley of Caroline, N. Y 18 VI Taughannock Falls 24 VII View Along Spencer Road, Ithaca, N. Y 28 MAPS I Map of the Site of Ithaca, N. Y 4 Showing Aboriginal Occupation, Trails and General Appearance before 1790 II Map of Tompkins County 16-17 Showing Location of the Principal Trails; also Aboriginal Place Names Glossary of Aboriginal Place Names 30-31 Bibliography 32 it it it it **s^*.***^v^*s^^^,^_K^^^.^^^^^^^^^^^s^s^^^^^^^,^. Introduction Before the coming of the white man to this region, Indian trails or paths extending in many directions traversed what was then a mighty forested wilder ness ; a region favorably endowed by nature with valleys and high hills, lakes and swift running water-courses. Fed by a multitude of swift running streams, flowing into its southern end, was Ganiataragechiat, or Cayuga Lake the French called it Goiogouen, or Lac Tichero which stretched northward out of this rugged region, a region that later was named Tompkins County. By far the largest and most useful of all the local high ways of the red man, was that broad trackless highway of travel, Cayuga Lake. For unknown centuries it had been used by friendly and hostile tribes; even deadly battles had been fought upon it; yet on its fickle surface were left no tell-tale scars or tracks. Only on land could be found those marks of human communication, that, according to their use, were worn into deep, well beaten paths, or were merely obscure traces through the forest, over which at times even the Indian became lost. The Indian trails can be divided into two groups. In the first group were the long continuous trails, running from important landmarks and towns; these extended throughout the state and beyond. In the second group were the short inter-connecting paths, leading from one village to another, and making most lakes and valleys accessible. Like the Indian villages, these forest trails were constantly changing, and all trace of their location was soon obliterated by the ceaseless forest growth. The main through trails in what is now Tompkins County were few but important, and for hundreds of years, or since the red man first inhabited this it 7 it Introduction *++**+++**++ region, they have played their part as throughfares, over which traveled hordes of aborigines of the Algonquin Family, and later the tribes of the Iroquois. "Warriors' Trail," One of the most traveled was the which began at Cayuga Castle, the principal Cayuga village, on the east side of the lake, between Levanna and Union Springs, and ran to Owego. Both ends of this trail connected with other trails that reached out in many directions. <gfc * *fc *gi, Middaugh Woods near Brooktondale, N. Y. A few primeval forest monarchs still survive along the route of the "Warriors' Trail" (Cayuga Lake, Owego). The author stands by ancient gnarled white pine tree, pointing southward along the course of the trail, a trace of which is still visible in these woods. $h 8 * it CHAPTER I it Warriors' The Trail warriors' The trail entered the county from the north, in the town of Lansing, along the county road to Lake Ridge; from there it followed the present State highway No. 34B south. Turning off this route it descended into the village of Ludlowville, by way of the cemetery road. Salmon Creek, or Gientachne, was forded at the site of the present iron bridge on the Ludlowville-Myers road. Abput 100 yards south of the ford, the trail turned eastward up a short narrow ravine, following the road now road." known as the "brickyard It then passed in a south easterly direction up the long east hill to the crossing south of South Lansing hamlet, above the falls on Norton's Creek, where the highway bridge on route 34 is located. From there, the trail swung west, then south to Estys. At Estys began the long descent of the hill. In places the path ran where the highway now does, but near the foot of the hill it bore a few rods east, following a natural ledge. At the bottom of the hill it crossed the streams of Twin Glens at McKinneys; then it followed the lake shore approxi mately where the present highway runs. From the southeast corner of Cayuga Lake, the trail continued past the old Indian spring at the base of the hill by Renwick Heights; then around the sandy bluff at the Lake View Cemetery to Nogaene, or Fall Creek. Crossing Fall Creek about at the location of the bridge on Lake Street, the path continued in the direction of the Fall Creek school, where it crossed another sand bluff ex tending nearly to Tioga Street. From there it followed along close to the base of East Hill, as does Linn Street, to Casca dilla, or as called by early settlers, Himepaugh's Mill Creek. A -few rods south of the Cascadilla crossing, another much used trail, from Seneca Lake and other points, connected with the Owego trail.
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