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North and South Trails, No. 1.
Name: The Venango Trail.
Termini: Fort Pitt and Fort Presque Isle (Erie, Pennsylvania).
Route: Took the watershed between the Allegheny and Beaver straight north to Fort Venango (Franklin, Pennsylvania). Ascended the Rivière aux Bœufs (French creek) to the portage between Presque Isle, which it crossed.
Remarks: The main landward route to Lake Erie from Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt. Connected the last of the line of French forts built from Quebec to the Ohio, forts Presque Isle (Erie, Pennsylvania), La Bœuf (Waterford, Pennsylvania), Venango or Machault (Franklin, Pennsylvania), and Duquesne (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania). For references, see Sanford's History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, p. 24, also, Pennsylvania Archives, second series, p. 720, and Post's Journal for July and August, 1758. For best map, see Hutchins's "A Map of the Country on the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers."
