America’s Historic Roads
Puzzle 08 · Routes Before the Motorcar · Page 20 in print
Iroquois Trail
In 1798, Joseph Ellicott surveyed the earlier Great Iroquois Trail. He later used its route for the Buffalo Road, linking Buffalo with the land-company office in Batavia.
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Albany
Albany, eastern endpoint in the survey’s Iroquois-trail description.
Amherst
Amherst on the western route.
Avon
Avon near the Genesee trail crossing.
Batavia
Batavia, terminus of the later Buffalo Road. Eastern terminus of the road created along the Indigenous trail.
Buffalo Creek
Buffalo Creek at the western trail destination.
Buffalo Road
Buffalo Road laid along the older Iroquois Trail. Later road created using the Indigenous trail corridor.
Canandaigua
Canandaigua on the later Seneca Turnpike corridor.
Ellicott Creek
Ellicott Creek beside the route’s later Buffalo Road alignment.
Genesee
Genesee Valley, Seneca homeland connected to the trail system.
Main Street
Present-day Main Street approximating the older trail in Williamsville.
Oneida
Oneida on the later Seneca Turnpike corridor.
Seneca
Seneca nation of the western trail country.
Syracuse
Syracuse on the later Seneca Turnpike corridor.
Utica
Utica on the later Seneca Turnpike corridor.
Waterloo
Waterloo on the later Seneca Turnpike corridor.