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Areas of Specialization
Mid-Atlantic States
- Those states of the United States having Atlantic Ocean ports and lying between New
England and Virginia. They are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland.
Mid-West States
- Those states of the United States extending roughly from the state of Ohio westward
through Iowa and from the Ohio and Missouri rivers northward through the Great Lakes.
This group includes Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa
and Minnesota.
New England States
- The northeastern United States encompassing the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
Some Migration Trails into the Mid-West and Kentucky
- Braddock's Road - The first road to across land through the Appalachian Mountain range
from Hagerstown, MD to Uniontown, PA.
- Forbe's Road - This road basically runs along the PA Turnpike (I-76) and in 1758 began
in Dauphin Co., PA and ran west to Fort Ligonier in Westmoreland Co., PA and stopped at
Fort Duquensne (also, Fort Pitt) at the junction of the Allegheny River, the Ohio River
and the Youghiogheny River.
- The Wilderness Road - Blazed by Daniel Boone, this road traveled through the Cumberland
Gap, through the Cumberland Mountains and into Kentucky. This trail was rough and
difficult to travel from about 1776 to about 1800 when the trail was widened to allow
wagon teams.
- Gist's Trace out of PA and the Kanawha Trail from VA led pioneers into Ohio. Zane's
Trace connected the Forbe's Road of PA to the Wilderness Road of KY. All this formed a
great migration circle by 1800
- The National Road - This road was commissioned by congress and work began after the War
of 1812 (about 1815). It began in Baltimore, MD through Western MD, into Western PA,
Central OH, Central IN and Central IL to St. Louis, MO and was completed in 1838.
For more detailed information on these and other United States migration routes,
consult William Dollarhide's Map Guide to American Migration Routes, (Bountiful,
UT: Heritage Quest, 1997).
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06 Apr 2009