This wiki is intended to be a place for work-in-progress, incomplete but interesting bits and pieces, and final work the author wants to share with like-minded local historians. We believe most of the material warehoused here will be too small for conventional publication or the work of author's shy of conventional publication channels. We have few requirements; be polite and don't worry about showing visitors your work.
The Trading Path Association is a non-profit collection of volunteers commited to finding and mapping landscape remnants from the colonial era in the southeastern United States, in England's first frontier. We are particularly interested in the contact era, and that makes us particularly interested in early grant locations. One of our subprojects is intended to determine settlement patterns in early colonial America. Of course, "settlement" in the backcountry doesn't occur until late in England's colonial experiment but we believe that settlers are likely to have displaced squatters and that earliest documented land ownership will to some degree reflect prior occupancies. We've put this page up in hopes that if we build it, grants will come.
trm
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Tom Magnuson said
at 2:50 pm on Sep 9, 2008
This wiki is intended to provide a place for local historians to share their work or little details that don't quite fit in their work, or for historians to collaborate. It is our experience with this new technology that it is quite effective at gathering tidbits. One historian will add a bit of information, maybe raise a question about a person, place, or thing, and others then feed in what they know. Soon a picture emerges of an event, a personality, or a place that had previously only exited in blurry parts. If you have any questions or want something in the wiki we've forgotten to add, let us know and we'll get right on it. Have fun.
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