Grace Patterson WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 1 Section 2, page 18

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1 1 244 1 6 . + 1 In the H ! 1 . - - - - - Nissouri Trail Disappeared with Surveying Road Lenes by S. Garrett from London free Prees . Julys , 1939 . & autumn of 1935 the writer conversed with ano . L. D. Brown , East Nissouri Township , chen in his q2nd year , and who has since passed away . away . In describing some of the stirring events of settlement days of Oxford County he referred several times to the famous Missouri Grail which went through the forests from Thamesford to St. Marys and was used acike by all comers - Indians and white men . The course of the trail is not visible at the present time and mr . Brown was probably the only person , then living , who , could point out exactly where it through the countryside . The described it ste being about the viath of city street , and of bare earch packed hard a by the tramping of innumerable fut . The a trail followed a blazed course through f the bush and for the most part was located on high ground . It cut directly across the country and later , when roade , were surveyed . no attempt was made by them to have the new roade coincide with the trail . m . Browns recalled that when his q a facher , the Reco . I homar B. Brown settled in East Missouri , in 1822 , the trail was in general a boy the former had the unique experience passed --- as zarraca a me use and cohen a small

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