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    Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. Although this road goes...
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    western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1775, Boone founded the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky, in the face of resistance...
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    western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee. An important part of the Wilderness Road, it is now part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The...
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    400 acres (5.7 km2) on the Ohio River near Laconia, IN Kentucky's Wilderness Road Council serves 25,000 Girl Scouts in 67 Central and Eastern Kentucky...
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  • Wilderness Road was a rock band founded in 1968 by musicians Warren Leming, Nate Herman, and relatives Andy and Tom Haban. The group, which performed...
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    through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him. On the morning of...
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    Fort Watauga (present-day Elizabethton in Tennessee), carving the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap, and established Fort Boonesborough. Boone...
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    36°38′2″N 83°31′25″W / 36.63389°N 83.52361°W / 36.63389; -83.52361 Wilderness Road State Park is a state park located in southwestern Virginia, near Cumberland...
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    Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural) are Earth's natural environments that have not been significantly modified by human activity, or any nonurbanized...
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    later lengthened to reach the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville. The Wilderness Road was steep and rough, and it could only be traversed on foot or horseback...
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    frontier explorer Daniel Boone was hired by Henderson to establish the Wilderness Road going through the Cumberland Gap and into southeastern Kentucky to...
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    Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park is a former state park located just south of London, Kentucky in Laurel County. It is now a city park under the auspices...
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    Lane, Ida M. (December 1, 1929). "Once The Teeming Crossroads Of The Wilderness, Bean Station Now Lapsed Into Village Peace". Knoxville News Sentinel...
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    The Trans-Taiga Road (French: Route Transtaïga) is an extremely remote wilderness road in northern Quebec, Canada. It is 582 kilometres (362 mi) long to...
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    due to its strategic location at the crossroads of Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road and the Great Indian Warpath, the town grew to become an important...
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  • Weapons Station China Lake borders the area to the east and a non-wilderness road bisects the area. The area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management...
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  • the Wilderness Road northward into present day Kentucky and the Ohio Valley. Daniel Boone was hired by the Transylvania Company to cut the Wilderness Road...
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    graduate. In 1956, Beatty made his stage debut at age 19, appearing in Wilderness Road, an outdoor-historical pageant located in Berea, Kentucky. During his...
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  • Stockton - Los Angeles Road Territorial Road of Michigan, from Detroit west to St. Joseph and Lake Michigan Wilderness Road (Wilderness Trail) scouted by Daniel...
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    Henry Rose Hill, Lee County, Virginia Battle of Kings Mountain Wilderness Road Wilderness Road State Park Thomas Sumter Benjamin Cleveland Richard Henderson...
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    Braddock's Road, and Forbes Road. These were later improved as America's first National Roads, including Wilderness Road, Cumberland Road, Lincoln Highway...
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    Carolina. Washington spent the remainder of June 1754 extending the wilderness road further west and down the western slopes of the Allegheny range into...
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    signed, frontier explorer Daniel Boone came northward to blaze the Wilderness Road, connecting the Transylvania Purchase lands with the Holston and Watauga...
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    Hoover Wilderness. It comprises 48,601 acres (197 km2). Many trails lead into it from the east, from Walker Meadow (off the Sonora Pass road), Buckeye...
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  • the Land (1997) The Misplaced Psyche (1997) The White Bird (1997) Wilderness Road (1997) Buckskin Buccaneer (1998) Cache Canon (1998) Murder Now, Pay...
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    The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) of the United States protects federally managed wilderness areas designated for preservation in their...
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    Byways. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved December 14, 2022. "Wilderness Road Heritage Highway". America's Byways. Federal Highway Administration...
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    His car became stuck where it was later found, on an unmaintained wilderness road. After trying to free it, it appeared he left the car in search of...
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    staging ground for other pioneers who were traveling overland on the Wilderness Road leading to Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap.[citation needed] First...
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  • locations around Kentucky, including Cumberland Falls, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro and Green River, and at the Abraham...
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