Rockingham County, Virginia

VAGenWeb Project

The Virginia magazine of history and biography

By Virginia Historical Society William Glover Stanard

Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail

"One of the nation's most historic routes, the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail was blazed by the legendary frontiersman in 1775 from Long Island of the Holston at what is now Kingsport, TN, through the Cumberland Gap of Virginia and into Kentucky. It would become the route for hundreds of thousands of settlers of the western frontier."