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The Kentucky legislature paid for the footpath to be upgraded to a wagon road starting in 1792. The wagon road was finished in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> | The Kentucky legislature paid for the footpath to be upgraded to a wagon road starting in 1792. The wagon road was finished in 1796.<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> | ||
Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, | Earlier peace with Indians along the Ohio River, and the opening of the [[National Road]] in 1818 provided an easier, safe, more level route to the Ohio Valley and Kentucky. With the introduction of steamboats at about the same time, traffic on the Wilderness Road declined until it was nearly abandoned in the 1840s. However, it was used by both Union and Confederate armies during the [[United States Civil War, 1861 to 1865|American Civil War]].<ref name="WildpediaRd" /> | ||
The Wilderness Road was important to settlers in Virginia and Tennessee as well as Kentucky. Some settlers used the road before it passed the Cumberland Gap to reach extreme southwest Virginia, and northeast Tennessee. Other pioneers waited to split off from the Wilderness Road until they passed over the Cumberland River. Then they followed the north side of the river over the "Kentucky barrens" toward the fertile lands of Middle Tennessee (Nashville) on a path that came to be called the Kentucky Road.<ref>East Tennessee Historical Society, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44435788 First families of Tennessee: a register of early settlers and their present-day descendants]'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, c2000) [{{FHL|976.8 H2ff}}], 7.</ref> | |||
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*Don Chesnut, "Fort Boonesborough Settlers" at [http://donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/fortboon.htm http://donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/fortboon.htm] (accessed 3 August 2010), citing H. Thomas Tudor, "Early Settlers of Fort Boonesborough," ''Bluegrass Roots'' 5:1-14. | *Don Chesnut, "Fort Boonesborough Settlers" at [http://donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/fortboon.htm http://donchesnut.com/genealogy/pages/fortboon.htm] (accessed 3 August 2010), citing H. Thomas Tudor, "Early Settlers of Fort Boonesborough," ''Bluegrass Roots'' 5:1-14. | ||
*George W. Ranck, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11837556 Boonesborough, its founding, pioneer struggles, Indian experiences, Transylvania days, and revolutionary annals]'' (Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton, c1901) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=293526&disp=Boonesborough%2C++its++founding%2C++pion++ FHL Book 976.9 B4f no. 16; Film 1033675]]. | *George W. Ranck, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11837556 Boonesborough, its founding, pioneer struggles, Indian experiences, Transylvania days, and revolutionary annals]'' (Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton, c1901) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=293526&disp=Boonesborough%2C++its++founding%2C++pion++ FHL Book 976.9 B4f no. 16; Film 1033675]]. | ||
*Robert Foster Johnson, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8135062 Wilderness Road Cemeteries in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia].'' (Owensboro, Ky.: McDowell Publications, 1981) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=16866 FHL Book 973 V3j]]. | *Robert Foster Johnson, ''[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8135062 Wilderness Road Cemeteries in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia].'' (Owensboro, Ky.: McDowell Publications, 1981) [[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=16866 FHL Book 973 V3j]]. | ||