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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Cumberland Gap Was Daniel Boone's Route to the West
From the April 11, 2018, Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal by Walt Links.
From 1912-1915, the DAR placed markers from North Carolina to Kentucky to designate Daniel Boone's 1769 road. Bison first traveled the road searching for grazing and salt licks. They were followed by the Cherokee and Shawnee Indians.
In 1750, Thomas Walker was the first recorded white man to follow it. Daniel Boone made his first trip over it in 1769 and in 1779 he began to blaze and widen it.
It was later named the Wilderness Road and an estimated 300,000 Americans crossed the Cumberland Gap between 1790 and 1810 heading west.
--RoadDog
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