Existing comment:
The clearing of a wagon road, announced in the Kentucky Gazette, was welcome news.
"The Wilderness Road from Cumberland Gap to the settlements in Kentucky is now compleated. Waggons loaded with a ton weight, may pass with ease, with four good horses, -- Travellers will find no difficulty in procuring such necessaries as they stand in need of on the road; and the abundant crop now growing in Kentucky, will afford the emigrants a certainty of being supplied with every necessary of life on the most convenient terms."
-- Kentucky Gazette, 1796 |