Wilderness Road

Wilderness Road
geographical name trail from SW Virginia to central Kentucky through Cumberland Gap blazed to site of Boonesborough by Daniel Boone 1775 & later extended to falls of the Ohio at Louisville

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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