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The Wilderness Road and the Cumberland Gap

Map by Beverly Whitaker.

Wilderness Road and Kentucky, 1774-85

Wilderness Road Regional Museum

Information about the Museum as well as original documents online pertaining to early southwest Virginia.

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1775 from Bristol, Virginia through the Cumberland Gap, Kentucky to Boonesboro, Kentucky with several branches and extensions, background history, route, map, connecting trails, and finding settler records.