Wilderness Road
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The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. Although this road goes through the Cumberland Gap into southern K
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George Caleb Bingham, Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap (1851–2, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum)
Cumberland Gap height of land along the Wilderness Road
The Braddock Road was a military road built in 1755 in what was then British America and is now the United States. It was the first improved road to cross the barrier of the successive ridgelines of t
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…steep, rough and narrow. It could be traversed only on foot or horseback. By contrast, wagons could travel along the National Road route (originally the Braddock Road blazed by the competing Ohio Company and George Washington circa 1750), particularly after the improvements. Despite the adverse conditions, thousands…
Braddock Road trace near Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania.