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Trails. Military Roads. Remarks.

The Great Trail. Course of Colonel Henry Bouquet's road from Fort Pitt to the "Crossing-place of the Muskingum" (Bolivar, Ohio), in 1764, in Pontiac's rebellion. First English military road opened west of the Ohio river.
Scioto Trail (Kanawha branch). Route followed by Gen. Andrew Lewis to mouth of Great Kanawha (Point Pleasant, W. Va.), in 1774, during Dunmore's war. The course of this first English army into the territory south of the Ohio river.

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