Zanes Trace was the first government-sanctioned road in the Northwest Territory of the United States. Lost to the ultimate transgressions of modern progress, the location of Zane's Trace has been the subject of speculation for well more than a century. A variety of congressional and territorial acts, correspondence, land records, and pioneer recollections will establish the original route and landowners on that route presented as never done before. Sourced and Indexed including 90 + color images of original documents, plats, maps, and more.