The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ched Wallens Creek on the LeeCounty side is nearly due west. I once thought that Hendersons wagons must be sent across the mountainat Stickleyville in order to enable them to reach Martins Cabin. I am not sureabout it now. The more I investigate the matter, the more it appears to me thatnot only the foot and horseback travel crossed at Duffield, but, also such wagontravel as there was, prior to 1804, crossed there. There is some reason for thinkingthat the Pattonsville crossing was made use of in constructing a road to Big Moc-casin
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . ched Wallens Creek on the LeeCounty side is nearly due west. I once thought that Hendersons wagons must be sent across the mountainat Stickleyville in order to enable them to reach Martins Cabin. I am not sureabout it now. The more I investigate the matter, the more it appears to me thatnot only the foot and horseback travel crossed at Duffield, but, also such wagontravel as there was, prior to 1804, crossed there. There is some reason for thinkingthat the Pattonsville crossing was made use of in constructing a road to Big Moc-casin Gap in 1804. This furnished rather more direct communication with the [110] The lioad fo Kcutuvkii Cumherlaiid (iaj) a niodoni i^raded road has been built wliieli, fortlie most ])ai-t, is in tlie location of tlie old road. P]xcept where thismodern road is built upon it, the old road usually is visible parallelingit. One mile beyond the point called Boones Path, where there isonly a small country store that was formerly a post office, and half a. In Powell Valley mile east of the village of Rose Hill, the road crossed Martins Creek,^lartins Station was located a mile south of this point. Martins Station was the important station on the road betweenthe Block House and Crab Orchard. It was the station of Captain inhabitants of Lee who resided on this side of Powells mountain. Lee County wasorganized in 1792. The road orders of the old Lee County Court, might, therefore,furnish some data on the Kentucky Path. It is my purpose to search these recordssome time in the future, but I do not know when. I am of the opinion, however, thatwhatever data the Lee Court records may hold, will tend only to confirm, not tochange, the location whicli you have assigned to tlie road from Moccasin Gap Letter of Prof. R. M. Addington, Dec. ^O. 1!)20 Conifjare also J. IL Duffs early map of Boones route to Kentucky throughthis region. Draper Mss. fiC89. The Detailed Loeation
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