I'm adding another migration road to my papers on cob-net.org. This one was first used as the George Rogers Clark Army road from Louisville to Vincennes - then we had several early Brethren Churches along it. Merle C Ruimmel *Louisville Vincennes Road* There were some Brethren who had come north of the Ohio River into Indiana Territory soon after 1800. These were mostly in the George Rogers Clark grant, which is now primarily Clark Co IN, to the north and east of the Falls (Louisville). {Jacob Stutzman, 1802, to near New Market IN.} Squire Boone had crossed the river to the west, settling in Grassy Valley (1802), south of Corydon IN, at the Squire Boone Cave. Primarily, the Brethren of Kentucky moved up into Indiana as it was opened for settlement following the War of 1812. These used the route followed by Clark’s solders, as they returned from the Vincennes Campaign of the Revolutionary War. This route is now primarily followed by US150 to Shoals IN, then US50 on west, to Vincennes, on the Wabash River. This is close to the original path, but is somewhat north of it. The original path is identified as the “Buffalo Trace”. The Buffalo Trace is started at the Ohio River, near Clarksville. It goes northwest to Floyds Knob. At Floyds Knob, the Louisville Vincennes Road came in from the south. The early settlers crossed the Ohio River at Oatman’s Ferry. Oatman’s Ferry left the city of Louisville well below the falls, near the end of Market Street, and landed at Ferry Street, in New Albany. From there, a road went west to Corydon (first Capitol of the State of Indiana), the Vincennes Road went north, and is identified now at State Street, in New Albany, as Paoli Pike or Old Vincennes Road. This goes north to Floyds Knob. The Buffalo Trace went slightly north of west from Floyds Knob to Galena and Greenville (Harrison County), then turned sharply south for a short distance, before turning back west, past the Reeps Cemetery (Brethren Church –named Indian Creek Church), and into Bradford as its main east/west street. From Bradford it continues on west to Central Barren and Hancock Chapel. The Trace then continued on slightly north and west to Cuzco, Crystal and Haysville (Dubois County), going just north of Otwell, to Algiers, Alford and Petersburg (Pike County), then heading northwest to Vincennes. Modern roads are back country from Hancock Chapel, till arriving at Cuzco, where IN56 is followed to Haysville, where 56 turns south to Jasper, but the Buffalo Trace route continues west to Portersville going to Otwell. The Trace cut across to IN356 a little north of Otwell, and goes on to Algiers, Alford and Petersburg. IN61 goes north here, crossing the White River, to Monroe City, Verne and into Vincennes from the southeast. A variant on this occurred early. From Bradford or Central Barren, the settlers turned north to Palmyra (IN135) where US150 is primarily the route followed on to Paoli and West Baden Springs (originally called “Lick Creek” – a Quaker destination). An early Brethren Church was north of Paoli, near Orleans - the Lost River Church (founded c1812), now the Liberty Christian Church. The US150 route continues today to Shoals IN, but southeast of Shoals, at Winingers (the Sampson Hill Church of the Brethren, closed), Old IN550 was the original route continuing west to the early settlement of Hindostan Falls, then to Loogootee (where US50 comes in from Shoals). There US50 continues due west to Vincennes, the Wabash River, to Illinois and eventually, St Louis Missouri.