This wiki is intended to be a place for work-in-progress, incomplete but interesting bits and pieces, and final work the author wants to share with like-minded local historians. We believe most of the material warehoused here will be too small for conventional publication or the work of author's shy of conventional publication channels. We have few requirements; be polite and don't worry about showing visitors your work.
The Trading Path Association is a non-profit collection of volunteers commited to finding and mapping landscape remnants from the colonial era in the southeastern United States, in England's first frontier. We are particularly interested in the contact era, and that makes us particularly interested in early grant locations. One of our subprojects is intended to determine settlement patterns in early colonial America. Of course, "settlement" in the backcountry doesn't occur until late in England's colonial experiment but we believe that settlers are likely to have displaced squatters and that earliest documented land ownership will to some degree reflect prior occupancies. We've put this page up in hopes that if we build it, grants will come.
trm
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Tom Magnuson said
at 5:39 pm on Aug 15, 2008
The Trading Path Association has set up several wikis to help us gather information about England's Firs Frontier in North America, the southeast. Beside this nclocalhistory site we have a site called firstfrontierhistoryedit. It is intended to provide off-line editing and vetting for local history authors and document folk. At that site the authors get to identify who can so much as see their work in progress. We also have a grantmappers wiki which is, again, closed to the public at which historians engaged in mapping grants and old deeds can share their work, help one another out, and seek a little synergy in what is an extremely lonely pursuit. To gain access to that site you'll need to convince us you are in fact a serious grant mapper. In other words find a reference you think will open that particular gate. Meanwhile, here you are at nclocalhistory. Feel free to upload your work in history, genealogy, geography. In fact, feel free to share whatever information you have about NC history. Bear in mind that this is a regular wiki with general public access. I, personally, like the naughty parts, but please, treat this as a serious history site; you can talk about the naughty but you need to be tasteful and nice.
AS part of this experiment, I've created file folders for all the counties in which the TPA is or has worked. You'll also notice folders for streams. The parenthetical notes after the stream names indicates the counties involved so as to discriminate streams with the same name. Please contact me, Tom Magnuson, if you want higher privileges, want to help with site management, have a complaint about the site or IF YOU WANT TO HELP US DEFRAY TH COST OF MANAGING our various wikis. Let me know if you want to add a folder and it shall be yours.
trm
Tom Magnuson said
at 11:18 am on Aug 18, 2008
See (in Orange County folder) a good example of collaborative research and discovery.
Tom Magnuson said
at 2:48 pm on Aug 21, 2008
Please, make sure you "join" the wiki (rather than just navigating to it. If you just navigate to nclocalhistory you'll be able to read but not comment. Somebody who heretofore hadn't joined, give it a try and see if it makes a difference. Sorry about the guinea piggery but we be teachin' ol' dogs new tricks.
trm
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