English Explanatory Dictionary

Wilderness Road

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. One of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East — the other being the Cumberland Road. It made a long loop from Virginia southward to Tennessee and then northward to Kentucky, a distance of 200 miles (320 km).

Word forms

Wilderness Road the Wilderness Road
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