The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Carters Valley, looking east from the Block House. The old road to Virginia and Pennsylvania at right The Detailed Location of the Boad [95] Valley at a point where the hills open out into a valley half a milewide and a mile long. This little valley is today a meadow surronndedby wooded hills. The spot is a pleasant one in a rough location of the fort itself was determined, as always at thesestations, by the presence of a good spring. The fort stood upon asmall hill above the spring and looked east up the Near B
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . Carters Valley, looking east from the Block House. The old road to Virginia and Pennsylvania at right The Detailed Location of the Boad [95] Valley at a point where the hills open out into a valley half a milewide and a mile long. This little valley is today a meadow surronndedby wooded hills. The spot is a pleasant one in a rough location of the fort itself was determined, as always at thesestations, by the presence of a good spring. The fort stood upon asmall hill above the spring and looked east up the Near Block House on old road from Long Island. Just back of this house is the Fork where the Wilderness Road to Kentucky left the Long Island Road The old road to the Block House from Long Island, at the mouthof Reedv Creek, still exists. This is the road which Boone followedon his joiu-ney of 1775. From the Block House the present road through MoccasinGap, Gate City, Speers Ferry, Clinchport, Duffield to Kanes Gapin Powell Moiuitain is in practically the exact location of the Wilder-ness Road. The first landmark of the old road after leaving theBlock House was the ford of the North Fork of the Holston, twomiles distant. The old ford is about 300 yards up the river from thepresent bridge, and the old road, approaching the ford up the south [9(5] The lioad to Kcntiickij l)ank of the river and g()iiii> down the north bank, still exists. Fourmiles beyond this is Moccasin Gap which furnished tlie only passwaythrough the Clinch ^Mountains from the settlements on the Holstont
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