After Daniel Boone and his party widened it, it was called Wilderness Road. [Only people are whos. Inanimate objects are whats.]
The Cumberland Gap is a V-shaped passage through the Appalachian Mountains at the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.
The Cumberland Pass or Cumberland Water Gap was widened by loggers under Daniel Boone to make it more accessible for pioneers into the frontier. The route was not discovered by Boone but was along used highway of the American Indians that a Virginia Doctor named Thomas Walker discovered on one of his wilderness explorations.
It is called wilderness road. in 1775 Daniel Boone blazed a trail, known as wilderness road, for Transylvania Company from Fort Chiswell, Virgina through the Cumberland gap in central Kentucky. Later it lengthened to reach the Falls of the Ohio in Louisiana.
by opening the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee into Kentucky. Daniel Boone also founded Boonseborough, Kentucky, one of the first settlements west of the Appalachians. He helped many settlers immigrate into new territory.
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Wilderness Road
The Native American trail through the Cumberland Gap along the banks of the Kentucky River was renamed the Wilderness Road by European settlers. This road helped facilitate westward expansion into Kentucky and beyond.
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Lake Cumberland is in south central Kentucky and stretches through a 10 county wide area.
Thomas Walker explores Kentucky through the Cumberland GapLouisville and Portland Canal opened.
The Cumberland Gap is a V-shaped passage through the Appalachian Mountains at the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee.
The major bodies of water in Kentucky are the Ohio River, the Mississippi River, Cumberland River, Kentucky River, and Green River. There is also Lake Cumberland, Lake Barkley and Green River Lake.
They crossed it by riding trains or wagons over the mountains.
The trail that led from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky was the Wilderness Road.
The trail that led from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky was the Wilderness Road.
It runs south from Cincinatti Ohio through Covington to Lexington and then through the Cumberland Mountains and Plateau on its way to Knoxville Tennessee.