TRAVEL THEN

TRAVELLERS' TALES Two Tours To New Connecticut - Two "coming of age" journeys over the Old Forbes Road in 1810 - 1811. Excerpted from the journals of Connecticut teenagers Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and Margaret Van Horn Dwight. A Winter Journey - Letter from Mary Hosmer, in Seville, OH, to her parents in Connecticut, recounting her icy journey west by wagon and sleigh. Lake Erie Schooners - Two Ohio historians recall Lake Erie's tall ships. Milwaukee to Green Bay, 1843 - by Increase Allen Lapham, Another Wintry Journey. Wisconsin Magazine of History, courtesy of Wisconsin Electronic Reader. The Illustrating Traveler - Beinecke Library, Yale, displays original art from 18th and 19th century illustrated travelers' tales from the high Arctic to the Caribbean.

EARLY TRANSPORTATION Taming the Wilderness - Rivers, Roads, Canals, and Railroads, an online exhibition from Conner Prairie. The Conestoga Wagon - Some facts about this mode of transportation from the 19th Century, from End of the Oregon Trail. New York Travel Diorama - Eight Dioramas depict the early history of Oneida County including many modes of transportation and communication. This WPA art project built in 1942 is now housed in the Children's Museum of Utica, NY. How to Build a Road: A 19th Century Primer - from the Crossroads Project, University of Virginia. Iditerod Historic Trail - was the main artery of Alaska's dog-sled driven winter commerce during the Gold Rush era. Moving Around - A century of transportation in Connecticut, Connecticut History Outline.

WATERWAYS The Little Falls Canal - Our page on the New York State Museum restoration project. Water Ways West: The 1772 Map - New York State Museum The Durham Project - Historical research by the The New York State Museum The South Hadley Canal Committee - United States first canal from Ted Belsky An Early Traveler's Description of the South Hadley Canal - Dr. Timothy Dwight; courtesy of U. Mass. Biology Department History of the Erie Canal—University of Rochester Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio and Erie Canal - Cleveland State University Library. Middlesex Canal—Class of 1996, Hobbs Middle School, Medford, Massachusetts Maine's Water Routes - Gulf of Maine Aquarium site about Maine's early waterways.

Erie Canal New York Public Library Picture Collection

OVERLAND TRAILS Early Emigrant Trails - Abstracted from a speech by Marcus Lewis before the National Genealogical Society, Library of Congress - Maps Division. On the Great Hopewell Road - A collection of opinions about this archealogical puzzle, gathered (and commented upon) Highway History Bigliography by the Federal Highway Authority A Map of Westward Migration - U.S. roads and waterways ca. 1775-1860 from Ancestry.com. The Mormon Trail - The story of the Mormons' journey west to escape persecution, as told by students at Elkhorn Middle School. Historic American Highways - A timeline (1539-1841) of national transportation milestones from Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman via ROOTSWEB. See also Maggie's map and collected stories on Ohio's early migration routes.