Wilderness Road.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 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
Joseph C. Ray, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.23
Abstract
Joseph Ray, Jr. was born in Berea and was a 1952 graduate of the Foundation School of Berea College. After attending Berea for a short period, Ray studied at the University of Kentucky where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in History in 1956. Ray would then go on to earn his M.A. at Emory University before embarking on a long and distinguished career as a teacher, historian, actor, and director. Ray spent most of his teaching career at West Nottingham Academy in Colora, Maryland, where he...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1979