Wilderness Road

proper noun

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).

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Meanings

proper nounthe Wilderness Road
  1. historicalOne 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).
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