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.

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