Indiana Historical Society publications . er, and many pioneers came to Indiana,by way of this There appears to have been an Indian trail five miles southof what is now Leopold, in Perry county. It led northwestfrom the Ohio Going almost northwest from Rome,in Perry county, and leaving Cannelton, Tell City and Troyfrom six to eight miles south, an Indian road crossed the An-derson river three miles southeast of Fulda, passed through 24 Samuel McCoys novel, Tippecanoe, pp. g and 146; CockrumsPioneer History of Indiana, pp. 368 and 369; (Read General Gibsonsspeech). 25 See Act
Indiana Historical Society publications . er, and many pioneers came to Indiana,by way of this There appears to have been an Indian trail five miles southof what is now Leopold, in Perry county. It led northwestfrom the Ohio Going almost northwest from Rome,in Perry county, and leaving Cannelton, Tell City and Troyfrom six to eight miles south, an Indian road crossed the An-derson river three miles southeast of Fulda, passed through 24 Samuel McCoys novel, Tippecanoe, pp. g and 146; CockrumsPioneer History of Indiana, pp. 368 and 369; (Read General Gibsonsspeech). 25 See Act creating Clark county; Miscellaneous Record Indiana, , State Auditors Office; Plat Book 5, p. 125; Samuel McCoys Tip-pecanoe; see Boones Cave Sepulcher, by Coulmbia Paxton Wood, inHuntingburg Independent of May 20, 1916; Esareys Indiana, pp. 145,205 and 246. 26 The University Societys Lincoln, p. 23; Hollands Lincoln, p. 25;Herndon & Weiks Lincoln, p. 16; Nicolays Lincoln, p. 7. - Plat Book 5, p. 11. 358 Trails and Surveys =ISH=. nrai irar PLATE 2. Trails and Surveys 359 Fulda, Mariah Hill, and went north of Dale, almost to thesouthwest corner of Dubois county, entered Pike county, andseems to have been lost at the Freeman line, two miles north-east of Pleasantville. The Yellow Banks Trail came upfrom Rockport, by way of Chrisney, Gentryville, and joinedthe Rome Trace near the Pike county line. Rome was orig-inally called Washington. It was an early county seat ofPerry county. E. Buckingham, William Rector and LeviBarber were early settlers in Perry county. These names arefound upon the early surveys of Surveyor Thomas Freeman found a large buffalo trace inCrawford county. It entered Dubois county near Birdseye,near which town is a buffalo wallow. He also made a recordof an Indian trail four miles east of Princeton, Indiana, in1802. This is probably the old trail used by pioneers in trav-eling from New Harmony, via Princeton, and reaching theBuffalo trace, so as
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