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Wilderness Road.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Dixie Highway-Wilderness Road Collection

 Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0177 SAA 173
Abstract Shaped by Native American paths and old buffalo traces, the Wilderness Road was forged in 1775 by Daniel Boone for the Transylvania Company. The trail, and later the road, winded through the Cumberland Gap–a notch in the Appalachian Mountains located near the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee–through the interior of Kentucky and to the Ohio River. The Wilderness Road served as an avenue of westward migration for some 300,000 settlers and led to the establishment of the first...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1920s-1930s

Photographs

 File — Box 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Photographs: Wilderness Road, both in B/W and color

Dates: Other: Majority of material found within 1920-1979

Joseph C. Ray, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.23
Abstract

Papers and photographs of Joseph Ray, Jr.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found within 1920-1979