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Early Thoroughfares Westward, No. 5.
Name: Virginia Warriors' Path.
Termini: Virginia and Kentucky.
Route: Ascended the Shenandoah valley to head of Clinch; through Cumberland Gap to head of Rockcastle creek; passed through Crab Orchard (Kentucky) and Danville (Kentucky) to "Falls of the Ohio" (Louisville, Kentucky).
Remarks: Traders' route to Kentucky and Tennessee; explorers' route thither; course of early westward immigrations to Kentucky and of Boone's Wilderness Road built in Revolutionary period. For map see Speed's Wilderness Road.
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