Over my 10 years in Winston-Salem I have developed a mild-curiosity about Daniel Boone ... The latest step in my exploration of Boone was to visit Cumberland Gap, the natural break in the ...

Daniel Boone was a frontiersman ... geographical know-how. In 1775, a land speculation company hired him to lead a large crew and open a path through the Cumberland Gap, a narrow mountain pass ...

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is located ... for settlement sites beyond the mountains. Daniel Boone came through this area in 1775 to carve out the Wilderness Road.

(WJHL) — The City of Kingsport, along with Visit Kingsport and the Cumberland Gap ... of the Boone Trace 250 Commemorative Relay Hike. The hike celebrates the 250th anniversary of Daniel Boone ...

Tennessee – the same place where Boone’s group left in March 1775. Penix followed the famous frontiersman’s route into Virginia and through Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. After five days of ...

Daniel Boone Day ... from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775 Boone blazed his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains - from North Carolina ...

“Daniel Boone was a man, yes ... is best reflected by his blazing of the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in 1775. It became a significant conduit. Within 25 years, more than 300,000 ...

A modern map marking the trail taken by pioneer Daniel Boone into ... reports hundreds of Boone's descendants, historians and community members gathered at Cumberland Gap National Historical ...

Daniel Boone. It was Boone, after first passing through this natural gap in the formidable Cumberland Mountains in 1769, who was commissioned in 1775 by Col. Richard Henderson, a Transylvania ...