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Information gathered while researching for "MY" Andersons.



TRAILS FOLLOWED TO TENNESSEE ETC


pg 32 of "Maxwell History & Genealogy, including Allied Families..."

by Florence Amelia Wilson Houston...

ROUTE TO TENNESSEE AND WESTERN KENTUCKY

"Prior to 1783 immigrants desiring to settle in Cumberland (as middle Tennessee was then called)
some came through the (Cumberland) Gap to Rockcastle Hills--thence turned south, following trace to Bluffs on Cumberland River, afterward Nashville.
In 1783 a wagon road was opened from Clinch direct to Nashville.
From New River at Inglis Ferry down East Tennessee Valley to lower and Clinch Mountain, thence via Crab Orchard, Tenn., to Nashville.
It was by this road that a great many of the settlers in Southwest Kentucky came out.
This land led through the land of the Cherokees.
In 1802 no house for one hundred miles over the Cumberland Mountains."


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