Wilderness Road - Revision history

Murphynw: added internal links to KY and VA counties

2012-01-30T01:59:32Z

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−	*Bristol, Washington, Virginia	+	*Bristol, [[Washington County, Virginia\|Washington]], Virginia
	*Cumberland Gap at the juncture of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky		*Cumberland Gap at the juncture of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky
−	*Boonesborough, Madison, Kentucky	+	*Boonesborough, [[Madison County, Kentucky\|Madison]], Kentucky

	'''Later west fork:'''		'''Later west fork:'''

−	*Harrodsburg, Mercer, Kentucky	+	*Harrodsburg, [[Mercer County, Kentucky\|Mercer]], Kentucky
−	*Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky	+	*Louisville, [[Jefferson County, Kentucky\|Jefferson]], Kentucky

	=== Settlers and Records ===		=== Settlers and Records ===

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	Scots-Irish and Germans were the first to use the Wilderness Road in large numbers. For partial list of settlers who used the Wilderness Road, see:		Scots-Irish and Germans were the first to use the Wilderness Road in large numbers. For partial list of settlers who used the Wilderness Road, see:

−	*Don Chesnut, "Fort Boonesborough Settlers" at [http://donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/fortboon.htm ~~http://donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/fortboon.htm~~] (accessed 3 August 2010), citing H. Thomas Tudor, "Early Settlers of Fort Boonesborough," ''Bluegrass Roots'' 5:1-14.	+	*Don Chesnut, "Fort Boonesborough Settlers," available [http://donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/fortboon.htm online] (accessed 3 August 2010), citing H. Thomas Tudor, "Early Settlers of Fort Boonesborough," ''Bluegrass Roots'' 5:1-14.
−	*George W. ~~Ranck,~~ ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11837556 Boonesborough, ~~its founding~~, ~~pioneer struggles~~, Indian ~~experiences~~, Transylvania ~~days~~, and ~~revolutionary annals~~]'' (Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton, ~~c1901) [~~{{FHL\|1033675\|item 1}}].	+	*Ranck, George W. ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11837556 Boonesborough, Its Founding, Pioneer Struggles, Indian Experiences, Transylvania Days, and Revolutionary Annals]''. Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton, 1901. {{FHL\|1033675\|item 1}}; digital versions at [http://books.google.com/books?id=lHMOAAAAIAAJ Google Books]; [http://www.archive.org/details/boonesboroughits00ranc Internet Archive].
−	*Robert Foster Johnson, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8135062 Wilderness Road Cemeteries in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia].'' (Owensboro, Ky.: McDowell Publications, 1981~~) [~~{{FHL\|973 V3j}}].	+	*Robert Foster Johnson, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8135062 Wilderness Road Cemeteries in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia].'' Owensboro, Ky.: McDowell Publications, 1981. {{FHL\|973 V3j}}

	=== Internet Sites ===		=== Internet Sites ===

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	In 1774 Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina, hired Daniel Boone to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The '''Wilderness Road''' started at Bristol, Virginia (splitting off the [[Great Valley Road]]) and headed west along the Virginia-Tennessee border to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Gap Cumberland Gap], across the nearby Cumberland River, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Eventually, a western spur of the road would reach Harrodsburg, and then Louisville, Kentucky on the Falls of the Ohio River. [[Image:{{Cumberlandgap}}<br><br>The road crossed difficult mountains, rushing rivers, and ran through Indian lands. Indian raids and white robbers both were significant problems, so many people chose to travel the road in large groups. But the risks were worth taking for the rewards of bountiful hunting grounds, rich farmland, and good salt licks.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> Until the 1794 [[Shawnee Indians\|Shawnee Indian]] defeat at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Timbers Fallen Timbers], for hostile Indian reasons, the Wilderness Road was the preferred route to Kentucky and used by 75 percent of settlers. It also served as an important passage for cattle, pigs, and sheep drives into and out of Kentucky to market.<ref>William W. Luckett, "Cumberland Gap National Historic Park," ''Tennessee Historical Quaterly'' 23 (December 1964). Digitized online at http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/cuga/luckett/index.htm (accessed 3 August 2010).</ref>		In 1774 Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina, hired Daniel Boone to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The '''Wilderness Road''' started at Bristol, Virginia (splitting off the [[Great Valley Road]]) and headed west along the Virginia-Tennessee border to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Gap Cumberland Gap], across the nearby Cumberland River, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Eventually, a western spur of the road would reach Harrodsburg, and then Louisville, Kentucky on the Falls of the Ohio River. [[Image:{{Cumberlandgap}}<br><br>The road crossed difficult mountains, rushing rivers, and ran through Indian lands. Indian raids and white robbers both were significant problems, so many people chose to travel the road in large groups. But the risks were worth taking for the rewards of bountiful hunting grounds, rich farmland, and good salt licks.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> Until the 1794 [[Shawnee Indians\|Shawnee Indian]] defeat at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Timbers Fallen Timbers], for hostile Indian reasons, the Wilderness Road was the preferred route to Kentucky and used by 75 percent of settlers. It also served as an important passage for cattle, pigs, and sheep drives into and out of Kentucky to market.<ref>William W. Luckett, "Cumberland Gap National Historic Park," ''Tennessee Historical Quaterly'' 23 (December 1964). Digitized online at http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/cuga/luckett/index.htm (accessed 3 August 2010).</ref>
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	The Kentucky legislature paid for the footpath to be upgraded to a wagon road starting in 1792. The wagon road was finished in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd" />		The Kentucky legislature paid for the footpath to be upgraded to a wagon road starting in 1792. The wagon road was finished in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd" />

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−	In 1774 Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina, hired Daniel Boone to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The '''Wilderness Road''' started at Bristol, Virginia (splitting off the [[Great Valley Road]]) and headed west along the Virginia-Tennessee border to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Gap Cumberland Gap], across the nearby Cumberland River, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Eventually, a western spur of the road would reach Harrodsburg, and then Louisville, Kentucky on the Falls of the Ohio River. [[Image:{{Cumberlandgap}}<br> The road crossed difficult mountains, rushing rivers, and ran through Indian lands. Indian raids and white robbers both were significant problems, so many people chose to travel the road in large groups. But the risks were worth taking for the rewards of bountiful hunting grounds, rich farmland, and good salt licks.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> Until the 1794 [[Shawnee Indians\|Shawnee Indian]] defeat at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Timbers Fallen Timbers], for hostile Indian reasons, the Wilderness Road was the preferred route to Kentucky and used by 75 percent of settlers. It also served as an important passage for cattle, pigs, and sheep drives into and out of Kentucky to market.<ref>William W. Luckett, "Cumberland Gap National Historic Park," ''Tennessee Historical Quaterly'' 23 (December 1964). Digitized online at http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/cuga/luckett/index.htm (accessed 3 August 2010).</ref>	+	In 1774 Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina, hired Daniel Boone to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The '''Wilderness Road''' started at Bristol, Virginia (splitting off the [[Great Valley Road]]) and headed west along the Virginia-Tennessee border to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Gap Cumberland Gap], across the nearby Cumberland River, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Eventually, a western spur of the road would reach Harrodsburg, and then Louisville, Kentucky on the Falls of the Ohio River. [[Image:{{Cumberlandgap}}<br><br>The road crossed difficult mountains, rushing rivers, and ran through Indian lands. Indian raids and white robbers both were significant problems, so many people chose to travel the road in large groups. But the risks were worth taking for the rewards of bountiful hunting grounds, rich farmland, and good salt licks.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> Until the 1794 [[Shawnee Indians\|Shawnee Indian]] defeat at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Timbers Fallen Timbers], for hostile Indian reasons, the Wilderness Road was the preferred route to Kentucky and used by 75 percent of settlers. It also served as an important passage for cattle, pigs, and sheep drives into and out of Kentucky to market.<ref>William W. Luckett, "Cumberland Gap National Historic Park," ''Tennessee Historical Quaterly'' 23 (December 1964). Digitized online at http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/cuga/luckett/index.htm (accessed 3 August 2010).</ref>

	The Kentucky legislature paid for the footpath to be upgraded to a wagon road starting in 1792. The wagon road was finished in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd" />		The Kentucky legislature paid for the footpath to be upgraded to a wagon road starting in 1792. The wagon road was finished in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd" />

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−	In 1774 Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina, hired Daniel Boone to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The '''Wilderness Road''' started at Bristol, Virginia (splitting off the [[Great Valley Road]]) and headed west along the Virginia-Tennessee border to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Gap Cumberland Gap], across the nearby Cumberland River, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Eventually, a western spur of the road would reach Harrodsburg, and then Louisville, Kentucky on the Falls of the Ohio River.	+	In 1774 Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina, hired Daniel Boone to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The '''Wilderness Road''' started at Bristol, Virginia (splitting off the [[Great Valley Road]]) and headed west along the Virginia-Tennessee border to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Gap Cumberland Gap], across the nearby Cumberland River, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Eventually, a western spur of the road would reach Harrodsburg, and then Louisville, Kentucky on the Falls of the Ohio River. [[Image:{{Cumberlandgap}}<br> The road crossed difficult mountains, rushing rivers, and ran through Indian lands. Indian raids and white robbers both were significant problems, so many people chose to travel the road in large groups. But the risks were worth taking for the rewards of bountiful hunting grounds, rich farmland, and good salt licks.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> Until the 1794 [[Shawnee Indians\|Shawnee Indian]] defeat at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Timbers Fallen Timbers], for hostile Indian reasons, the Wilderness Road was the preferred route to Kentucky and used by 75 percent of settlers. It also served as an important passage for cattle, pigs, and sheep drives into and out of Kentucky to market.<ref>William W. Luckett, "Cumberland Gap National Historic Park," ''Tennessee Historical Quaterly'' 23 (December 1964). Digitized online at http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/cuga/luckett/index.htm (accessed 3 August 2010).</ref>
−	[[Image:{{Cumberlandgap}}]]	+
−	The road crossed difficult mountains, rushing rivers, and ran through Indian lands. Indian raids and white robbers both were significant problems, so many people chose to travel the road in large groups. But the risks were worth taking for the rewards of bountiful hunting grounds, rich farmland, and good salt licks.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> Until the 1794 [[Shawnee Indians\|Shawnee Indian]] defeat at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Timbers Fallen Timbers], for hostile Indian reasons, the Wilderness Road was the preferred route to Kentucky and used by 75 percent of settlers. It also served as an important passage for cattle, pigs, and sheep drives into and out of Kentucky to market.<ref>William W. Luckett, "Cumberland Gap National Historic Park," ''Tennessee Historical Quaterly'' 23 (December 1964). Digitized online at http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/cuga/luckett/index.htm (accessed 3 August 2010).</ref>	+

	The Kentucky legislature paid for the footpath to be upgraded to a wagon road starting in 1792. The wagon road was finished in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd" />		The Kentucky legislature paid for the footpath to be upgraded to a wagon road starting in 1792. The wagon road was finished in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd" />
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	Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />		Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />

−	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a trail that came to be called the [[Kentucky Road\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>	+	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a trail that came to be called the [[Kentucky Road\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>

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Murphynw: added Daniel Boone painting

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	Daniel Boone and 35 axmen blazed a trail called the '''Wilderness Road''' from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap and into central Kentucky for the Transylvania Company. When the trail opened in 1775 it became the route of 70,000 settlers who came to Kentucky on foot or horseback before the trail was upgraded to wagon road in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd">Wikipedia contributors, "Wilderness Road" in ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Road (accessed August 4, 2010).</ref>[[Image:Wilderness Road Map.png\|650px]][[Image:{{CumberG}}]]		Daniel Boone and 35 axmen blazed a trail called the '''Wilderness Road''' from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap and into central Kentucky for the Transylvania Company. When the trail opened in 1775 it became the route of 70,000 settlers who came to Kentucky on foot or horseback before the trail was upgraded to wagon road in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd">Wikipedia contributors, "Wilderness Road" in ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Road (accessed August 4, 2010).</ref>[[Image:Wilderness Road Map.png\|650px]][[Image:{{CumberG}}]]
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	In 1774 Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina, hired Daniel Boone to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The '''Wilderness Road''' started at Bristol, Virginia (splitting off the [[Great Valley Road]]) and headed west along the Virginia-Tennessee border to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Gap Cumberland Gap], across the nearby Cumberland River, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Eventually, a western spur of the road would reach Harrodsburg, and then Louisville, Kentucky on the Falls of the Ohio River.		In 1774 Judge Richard Henderson, a land speculator of North Carolina, hired Daniel Boone to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The '''Wilderness Road''' started at Bristol, Virginia (splitting off the [[Great Valley Road]]) and headed west along the Virginia-Tennessee border to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Gap Cumberland Gap], across the nearby Cumberland River, and then went northwest to Boonesborough, Kentucky. Eventually, a western spur of the road would reach Harrodsburg, and then Louisville, Kentucky on the Falls of the Ohio River.
−		+	[[Image:{{Cumberlandgap}}]]
	The road crossed difficult mountains, rushing rivers, and ran through Indian lands. Indian raids and white robbers both were significant problems, so many people chose to travel the road in large groups. But the risks were worth taking for the rewards of bountiful hunting grounds, rich farmland, and good salt licks.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> Until the 1794 [[Shawnee Indians\|Shawnee Indian]] defeat at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Timbers Fallen Timbers], for hostile Indian reasons, the Wilderness Road was the preferred route to Kentucky and used by 75 percent of settlers. It also served as an important passage for cattle, pigs, and sheep drives into and out of Kentucky to market.<ref>William W. Luckett, "Cumberland Gap National Historic Park," ''Tennessee Historical Quaterly'' 23 (December 1964). Digitized online at http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/cuga/luckett/index.htm (accessed 3 August 2010).</ref>		The road crossed difficult mountains, rushing rivers, and ran through Indian lands. Indian raids and white robbers both were significant problems, so many people chose to travel the road in large groups. But the risks were worth taking for the rewards of bountiful hunting grounds, rich farmland, and good salt licks.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> Until the 1794 [[Shawnee Indians\|Shawnee Indian]] defeat at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Timbers Fallen Timbers], for hostile Indian reasons, the Wilderness Road was the preferred route to Kentucky and used by 75 percent of settlers. It also served as an important passage for cattle, pigs, and sheep drives into and out of Kentucky to market.<ref>William W. Luckett, "Cumberland Gap National Historic Park," ''Tennessee Historical Quaterly'' 23 (December 1964). Digitized online at http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/cuga/luckett/index.htm (accessed 3 August 2010).</ref>

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	Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />		Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />

−	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a trail that came to be called the [[Kentucky Road\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>	+	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a trail that came to be called the [[Kentucky Road\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>

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DiltsGD: add VA navbox

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add VA navbox

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JohnsonAC: trail

2010-10-13T22:43:51Z

trail

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	Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />		Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />

−	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a ~~path~~ that came to be called the [[Kentucky Road\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>	+	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a trail that came to be called the [[Kentucky Road\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>

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DiltsGD: KY template

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KY template

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	Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />		Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />

−	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a path that came to be called the [[~~Kentucky_Road~~\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>	+	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a path that came to be called the [[Kentucky Road\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>

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DiltsGD: KY Rd link

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KY Rd link

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	Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />		Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865\|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" />

−	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a path that came to be called the Kentucky Road.<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>	+	The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a path that came to be called the [[Kentucky_Road\|Kentucky Road]].<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL\|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref>

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