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East and West Trails, No. 3.
Name: The Great Trail.
Termini: Fort Pitt and Fort Detroit.
Route: Followed north bank of Ohio river from Fort Pitt to the mouth of the Beaver—took the watershed to the "Crossing-place of the Muskingum" (Bolivar, Ohio)—Wooster, Ohio—Fremont, Ohio—River Raisin—Fort Detroit.
Remarks: The most important trail west of the Ohio river in the Revolutionary era; western extension of Nemacolin's Path (Braddock's Road). For references see Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, vol. ii., p. 832; also Douglas's History of Wayne County, Ohio, p. 167; also Colonel Henry Bouquet's Journal in Bouquet's Expedition against the Ohio Indians. For best map, see Hutchins's map in same volume.
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