Daniel Boone

ID: 2680
This file appears in: Wilderness Road/Logan's Station

Daniel Boone was commissioned by Richard Henderson to construct a trail through the Cumberland Gap, north into what would become Kentucky in 1774-1775. The Wilderness Road eventually evolved from the original Boone Trace. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Wilderness Road/Logan's Station

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2177 in Stanford commemorates the Wilderness Road, the famous trail that brought thousands of settlers into Kentucky and set the stage for the westward expansion of the United…