Where the shoreline used to be
Look for older land and water beneath today's map. Three short stops connect a changing shore, a river mouth and a surviving curve.
History & place
Read the city in a few stops
Notice a curve in a street, an inherited lot line or a boundary people challenged. Each trail offers a question, a short explanation and the evidence behind it.
Take a short history trail
Explore on the map, at your own pace. These are reading trails, not walking routes.
How this neighborhood became lots
Read the city through claims, plats and altered ground. These stops explain how to ask questions of a lot's timeline without inventing its ownership history.
Who could make a home here?
Three places show how access to a home depended on more than available land. Read about discrimination, return after incarceration and a community that built shelter together.
These trails draw on the museum's existing sources. Qualifications stay beside each story, and you can suggest corrections or help review the evidence.