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The Cherokee and Shawnee Along the Wilderness Trail
The Indian tribes that were most concerned with the passage of settlers down the Boone Wilderness Trail and…
Drive The Daniel Boone Trail
Explore twenty-four remarkable places where Native American traditions, frontier exploration, and early American history shaped the mountains of Tennessee, Virginia, and Kentucky.
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Discover The Trail’s Stories
Explore the stories that shaped the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail.
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Fort Frederick / Dunkard’s Bottom Fort
No river crossing on the entire Wilderness Trail had such historic significance as the New River Crossing at…
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Colonel John Anderson, Builder of the Blockhouse
May 20, 2014 by William Anderson The Wilderness Road Blockhouse in Natural Tunnel State Park is a reproduction…