The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Cumberland Gap(From Cumberland Gap A illage) The Importance of the Settlement of Kentncky [9] they carried their offensive across the Ohio River time and time again,and bv the end of the Revokitionary War had demorahzed theIndian settlements in the southern part of Ohio, and had preparedthe wav for the settlement of that territorv. The permanent settlement of Kentucky began to take form in1775. The exploration of the state had begun much earlier. Trav-elers had gone down the Ohio River and touched the states borderfor more than a ce

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The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Cumberland Gap(From Cumberland Gap A illage) The Importance of the Settlement of Kentncky [9] they carried their offensive across the Ohio River time and time again,and bv the end of the Revokitionary War had demorahzed theIndian settlements in the southern part of Ohio, and had preparedthe wav for the settlement of that territorv. The permanent settlement of Kentucky began to take form in1775. The exploration of the state had begun much earlier. Trav-elers had gone down the Ohio River and touched the states borderfor more than a century. In 1750 Dr. Thomas Walker, for theLoj^al Land Company of London, went through the mountains of thesoutheastern part of the state. In the same year Christopher Gist,for the Ohio Company, explored the northeastern part of the 1752 and 1767 John Finley traded in Kentucky on the OhioRiver. In 1764 Henry Scaggs went through Cumberland Gap andhunted on the Cumberland. In 1766 James Smiths party of fiveentered Kentucky by the same route, and anothe

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