USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Daniel Boone and 35 axmen blazed a trail called the Wilderness Road from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap and into central Kentucky for the Transylvania Company.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1775, the now-legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap–a notch in the Appalachian Mountains located near the intersection of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee–through the interior of Kentucky and to the Ohio River.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historical Marker #2177 in Stanford commemorates the Wilderness Road, the famous trail that brought thousands of settlers into Kentucky and set the stage for the westward expansion of the United States. The route that eventually became known as the Wilderness Road evolved from several different earlier pathways.

Detailed explanation-4: -On May 1, Daniel Boone, then 34, rode westward in search of this rumored passage into Kentucky. With him were John Findley, his brother-in-law John Stuart, and three other men to work as camp keepers. These market hunters planned to hunt for deer and to sell the skins back in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Wilderness Road, running from northeast Tennessee through the Cumberland Gap, was the main thoroughfare for Americans heading west into the new promised land of Kentucky from 1775 to about 1820.