Henry David Thoreau was a writer, philosopher, activist, and traveler. In fact, Thoreau once wrote, "A traveler! I love this title...Going from ____ to ____, it is the history of every one of us." Mapping Thoreau County is a project headed by Susan E. Gallagher of the University of Massachusetts Lowell with additional scholarly support from English and History professors around the country and financial support from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. The project documents the role that travel played in Thoreau's life and writing, introducing readers to maps sketched by Thoreau himself along with information about places that were central to Thoreau's life. In doing so, the site aims to provide English teachers and students with materials that contextualize Thoreau's prose. Dr. Gallagher continues to add to this website and will be including maps and artifacts from Thoreau's visits out of state, including to New York and Minnesota. The team aims to have the site fully updated by 2017, the 200th anniversary of Thoreau's birth.