Pine Mountain Settlement School 
Series 27: Scrapbooks, Albums, Gathered Notes

LOCAL HISTORY SCRAPBOOK

“Old Wilderness Road One Best Early Highways.”  1923   [Page 5, 5a]

“Old Wilderness Road One Best Early Highways. Ran from Hosten [Holsten] River, Virginia, Through Middlesboro and Cumberland Gap to Mouth of Otter.” OPENED JUST BEFORE BEGINNING OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR.” Middlesboro Daily News, March 26, 1923. Discusses: early roads of Kentucky ; J.T. Madison ; Holston River ; Wilderness Road ; Powell’s Valley ; Bennett Pemberton ‘ Nathaniel Sanders ; Daniel Weisiger; Road Law 1801 ;

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“Old Wilderness Road One Best Early Highways. Ran from Hosten [Holsten] River, Virginia, Through Middlesboro and Cumberland Gap to Mouth of Otter.” OPENED JUST BEFORE BEGINNING OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR.” Middlesboro Daily News, March 26, 1923. p. 05

“Old Wilderness Road One Best Early Highways. Ran from Hosten [Holsten] River, Virginia, Through Middlesboro and Cumberland Gap to Mouth of Otter.” OPENED JUST BEFORE BEGINNING OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR.” Middlesboro Daily News, March 26, 1923. p.05a