Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road & the Cumberland Gap that Carried Pioneers from the East Coast to Middle America

“The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East.” “In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail for the Transylvania Company from Fort Chiswell in Virginia through the Cumberland Gap. It was later lengthened, following Indian trails, to reach the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville. The Wilderness Road was steep, rough and narrow, and could be traversed…