The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Wilderness Road on Station Creek. Wallen Ridge in distance \ i The Detailed Loeation of the lioad [107] In its course from the Block House to Station Creek the old roadhad found its way across a continuous series of mountain ranges, allof which had a northeast and southwest trend, and whose practicablecrossing was along this devious path. It had gone through ClinchMountain; climbed around Purchase Ridge; and crossed Powell. ^K-im^^^ Powell River Mountain and Wallen Ridge. The name Troublesome Creek hasbeen left as testimony o
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Wilderness Road on Station Creek. Wallen Ridge in distance \ i The Detailed Loeation of the lioad [107] In its course from the Block House to Station Creek the old roadhad found its way across a continuous series of mountain ranges, allof which had a northeast and southwest trend, and whose practicablecrossing was along this devious path. It had gone through ClinchMountain; climbed around Purchase Ridge; and crossed Powell. ^K-im^^^ 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 B
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