The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . s various streams that nudvc up the headwaters of the JamesRiver to the Great Lick, where Roanoke, Va., is now located, andSalem. Between Salem and Ingles Ferry, at Radford, on New River,it passed the divide between the Atlantic waters and those of theOhio River. Crossing New River at Ingles Ferry it passed south-west down through the present towns of Pulaski, Max Meadows,Wyethville, Marion and Abingdon, (Washington Court House,)touching North Carolina on the head of Reedv Creek, to the Block 51 [52] The WUdcniess Road to Kcutuchy H
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . s various streams that nudvc up the headwaters of the JamesRiver to the Great Lick, where Roanoke, Va., is now located, andSalem. Between Salem and Ingles Ferry, at Radford, on New River,it passed the divide between the Atlantic waters and those of theOhio River. Crossing New River at Ingles Ferry it passed south-west down through the present towns of Pulaski, Max Meadows,Wyethville, Marion and Abingdon, (Washington Court House,)touching North Carolina on the head of Reedv Creek, to the Block 51 [52] The WUdcniess Road to Kcutuchy House. Ingles Ferry at Radford, still in the hands of the Inglesfamily, (lO^O), and Fort Chiswell were the important early stationson the road, and, after the Block House, the most important pioneerstations between the East and Kentucky. It is a matter of interest,showing how well the road from Philadelphia to the Block House fol-lowed the best topographical lines, that the present Blue Book Auto-mobile Routes, which, joined together, make the best road from. Long Island (on left) and the Holston in flood. Kingsport at mouth of Reedy Creek in distance at right Philadelphia to Bristol, Tenn., follow for almost their entire lengththis old pioneer road. The other road, from Richmond, ran almost directly westthrough Chesterfield, Powahatan, Cumberland, Buckingham, Ap-pomattox, Campbell and Bedford Counties, crossing the BlueRidge at Blue Ridge Gap into Bottecourt County, and meeting theroad from the Shenandoah Valley at Big Flat Lick, (Roanoke,) orabout where Salem now stands. Fort Chiswell was about seventy-five miles further on. The road from North Carolina came up from the Yadkin Valleythrough Salisbury, Huntsville, Yadkinville, and Wilkesboro. Itcrossed the Blue Ridge Mountains between Elkville and Boone andcrossed Stone Mountains, in the present Tennessee, at Zionville,
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