the wilderness road

made famous by daniel boone, large sections of the wilderness road were ancient buffalo trails and indian paths --- hundreds of thousands of people used it in migrating to kentucky and the old northwest territories in the last quarter of the eighteenth and first quarter of the nineteenth centuries

 parts of the route across cumberland gap are wonderfully well preserved, remaining much as they were in the early nineteenth century

indian rock was a landmark along the road on the kentucky side of the gap --- and provided a great place for robbers to hide