Map depicting American Indian trails in Ohio from the book "Archeological Atlas of Ohio," by William C. Mills, 1914. Before Europeans settled here, Ohio was home to many different indigenous cultures.

Also in Royal Oak is a marker for the “Indian Trail,” a depressed path across the historic Almon Starr land in the 3100 block of Crooks Road, east of Woodward and just south of 13 Mile Road.

Thompson wrote of how the first settlers of Danbury walked north along the Indian trails to found the city in 1684. Then, Colley said, he found a collection of maps posted online by the University ...