The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . iles northeast of Cumberland Gap. Probable site of Big Spring 1790, although about 178*2 Captain Martin transferred his head-quarters to Long Island in the South Fork of the Holston. Thelocation of Martin at this point, almost half way between the Ken-tucky and Holston settlements, and within twenty miles of Cimi-berland Gap, was a very important matter for the early find Henderson utilizing Martin as his agent on the road, andhe was a sort of relay station between the eastern and westernsettlements. Beyond Martins Stat
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . iles northeast of Cumberland Gap. Probable site of Big Spring 1790, although about 178*2 Captain Martin transferred his head-quarters to Long Island in the South Fork of the Holston. Thelocation of Martin at this point, almost half way between the Ken-tucky and Holston settlements, and within twenty miles of Cimi-berland Gap, was a very important matter for the early find Henderson utilizing Martin as his agent on the road, andhe was a sort of relay station between the eastern and westernsettlements. Beyond Martins Station the road passed into the valley ofIndian Creek and followed down this vallev almost to Cumberland [u->] The IJ^ildcrncss Boad to Kcnfucki/ Gap. Near one of the crossings of Indian Creek, about Vl milesfrom Cumherland Gap, is said to have occurred the IncHan attackupon Boones party, of October 1778 when his son James Boone andsix otlier meml)ers of the party were killed, a disaster so great thatthe party was compelled to abandon the trip to Kentucky.^. Residence in Lower Powell Valley, on Wilderness Road Twelve miles from Martins Station and 6 miles from Cumber-land Gap was Big Spring. From this point to Englishs Station,three miles from Crab Orchard — IW miles — there was not a the traveler had to traverse I^O miles of uninhabited wilderness. From Boones Path to Cumberland Gap down Powell Valleywas the best stretch of the VSilderness Road. Here the travelerpassed down a fertile wide rolling valley with the high rugged ridgeof Cumberland Mountain close at hand. The mountain rangedominates the scenery and, as William Brown vividly described it,affords a wild romantic prospect. This location of the disaster to Boones party in 1773 so near CnmberlandGap can hardly be correct. This point is nearly 60 miles by the trail from the (dinchRiver, and in the account of this occurrence it is said that members of the partywent back to the Clinch for help and returned
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