The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . 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
The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . 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,. Reedy Creek near mouth at Kingsport, Tenn. The General Course and Features of the Boad [] N. C.^ Thence it went across the northeast corner of the presentstate of Tennessee by Watauga to Long Island in the South Fork ofthe Holston, and Fort Patrick Henry, (Kingsport), at the junctionof the North and South Forks of the Holston, and thence on tothe Block House. The road from the Block House to Harrodsburg or Boones-borough was about ^^o miles long. Leaving the Block House it firstmade its way somewhat north of west for 35 miles over Clinch andPowell Mountains, to Powell Valley, then it bore down upon Cumber-land Gap almost directly west, through Powell Valley for 45 it climbed Cumberland Gap, and, 15 miles further, almostdirectly north, it found the gap in Pine Mountain and the ford ofthe Cumberland at Pineville. From that point it threaded its wayfor 100 miles in a northwest course through the foothills of theCumberland Mountains in Eastern Kentucky and emerged upon thepl
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