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Wilderness Road

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noun

American History.
  1. a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.


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Wilderness Road State Park is a 310-acre state park that educates and celebrates the westward expansion path through the Cumberland Gap known as Wilderness Road.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2020

The turnoff is about a mile north of Brodhead on Route 150, once known as the Wilderness Road.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2012

They came in on foot along Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road or down the Ohio River on flatboats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its gardens unfold along Christiansburg's Main Street, once part of the Wilderness Road forged by Daniel Boone, today close to the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway and a rails-to-trails bicycle path.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along the way a pleasant reminder of an almost forgotten past is that of the Wilderness Road Weavers busy at loom and wheel.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

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