The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ^^ Powell River Mountain and Wallen Ridge. The name Troublesome Creek hasbeen left as testimony of the difficulties of even the level stretches ofthis part of the road. From the ford of Stock Creek to the valley ofStation Creek, there was one succession of hard climbs and the traveler reached Valley Station he was in PowellValley. Thence to Cinnberland Gap the road goes o\er many hills,and through a country that is always rolling, but it has no moremountain ranges to cross and no great natural obstacles to
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ^^ Powell River Mountain and Wallen Ridge. The name Troublesome Creek hasbeen left as testimony of the difficulties of even the level stretches ofthis part of the road. From the ford of Stock Creek to the valley ofStation Creek, there was one succession of hard climbs and the traveler reached Valley Station he was in PowellValley. Thence to Cinnberland Gap the road goes o\er many hills,and through a country that is always rolling, but it has no moremountain ranges to cross and no great natural obstacles to Station Creek the old road followed directly west to Jonesvillealong a direct but now little used road. Two miles l)evond VallevStation and seven miles beyond Wallen Ridge the road crossed by ?^ [lOS] The Wilderness Road to Kenttiek// one of its hair-pill fords Powell River. The next landmark l)eyondPowell l{iver was Glade Spring at the present Jonesville, Va. On theretaining wall of the yard of the conrt house at Jonesville^ is one ofthe Boone Wilderness Road in Powell Valley between Jonesville and Boones Path ^Col. A. L. Pridemore, of Jonesville, Lee County, Va., under date of x\pril6th, 1889, writes to Dr. L. C. Draper, in part, as follows: As I wrote you, a long conversation with Col. Spears in which I put to himmany pointed questions, has led me to doubt somewhat my former theory, thatBoones son was killed at the mouth of Wallens Creek. In the first place I wasmistaken in saying that Cumberland Mountain could not be seen from the gorgein Wallens Ridge near the village of Stickleyville; it can be seen plainly from nearthe top and on the sides but not from the gorge from about ^^ the way down butthe view is not striking and jjronounced like from the mouth of the creek. ButCol. Spear, says in the date of 1800, his father removed for the second time to ScottCounty when he was a young man, not over 14 or under 10 years of age, andremem-bers well the country at that
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