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North and South Trails, No. 3.

Name: Scioto Trail.
Termini: Fort Sandusky, on Lake Erie, and Virginia and Kentucky.
Route: Ascended the Sandusky valley and descended the Scioto valley to the Ohio. Principal thoroughfare of the Shawanese country, and a war and trade path southward and east. An important branch took the highland watershed between the Scioto and Hockhocking rivers and crossed the Ohio at the mouth of the Great Kanawha, which it ascended into Virginia. The main trail continued straight south through Kentucky to Cumberland Gap.