The Wilderness Road Articles
Location of the Wilderness Road at Cumberland Gap
By Jere L. Krakow, Cumberland Gap National Historic Park
Archived: 1987
Among the many roads associated with the history of transportation in the United States the Wilderness Road and the natural access point through the Appalachians, Cumberland Gap, immediately come to mind. From the colonial period to just after the turn of the nineteenth century, the road saw an ever increasing volume of traffic, most of […]