Wilderness Road

The words

1. Boone Trace

   Original walking path that grew into the Wilderness Road.

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2. Boonesborough

   Settlement founded spring 1775 at the end of Boone Trace.

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3. Buffalo

   Ancient buffalo path the road followed.

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4. Crab Orchard

   Kentucky destination of the Skagg’s Trace branch.

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5. Cumberland Gap

   Mountain pass through which the Wilderness Road ran.

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6. Daniel Boone

   Daniel Boone, commissioned in 1775 to blaze the settlement route through Cumberland Gap.

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7. Henderson

   Richard Henderson, the land speculator who commissioned Boone to blaze a settlement route in 1775.

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8. Kentucky

   Destination territory and later state.

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9. Laurel County

   Present-day Kentucky county where the branch forked.

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10. Louisville

    Falls of the Ohio site where Clark’s army depended on the road.

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11. Madison County

    Present-day Kentucky county containing Boonesborough.

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12. Pioneers

    Settlers who used the trail 1775–1811.

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13. Skagg's Trace

    Branch path northwest toward Crab Orchard.

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14. Thomas Walker

    Thomas Walker, traveler who documented Cumberland Gap in 1750.

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15. Warriors Path

    Indigenous trade and war route through Cumberland Gap.

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