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	Wilderness Road. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Wilderness Road, principal avenue of W migration for U.S. pioneers c.1790–1840, blazed in 1775 by the Amer.
		After Ky. became a state in 1792, the road was widened to accommodate wagons.
		Road, the Wilderness Road was neglected and finally abandoned in the 1840s.
	www.bartleby.com /69/43/W03243.html (201 words)

	Wilderness Road
		Wilderness Road, principal avenue of westward migration for U.S. pioneers from c.1790 to 1840, blazed in 1775 by the American frontiersman Daniel
		Feeders from the east (Richmond, Va.) and the north (Harpers Ferry, W.Va.) converged at Fort Chiswell in the Shenandoah valley.
		With the building of the National Road, the Wilderness Road was neglected and finally abandoned in the 1840s.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0852254.html (252 words)

	wilderness rd
		The road through the Cumberland Gap was not officially named "the Wilderness Road" until 1796 when it was widened enough to allow Conestoga Wagons to travel on it.
		Others claimed the beginning of the road to be at Sapling Grove (today's Bristol, VA) which lay at the extreme southern end of the Great Valley Road since it was at that point that the road narrowed, forcing travelers to abandon their wagons.
		The mountain ranges to the West of the Valley are the Alleghenies, and the ones to the east constitute the Blue Ridge chain.
	www.obcgs.com /roads.htm (512 words)

	Wilderness Road State Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Wilderness Road State Park was purchased in 1993; the park is approximately 200 acres that lie astride the "Wilderness Road." Wilderness Road was carved by Daniel Boone in 1775 to open America’s first western frontier.
		Wilderness Road State Park is presently under development with limited handicapped accessibility.
		Wilderness Road State Park is in a geographically and historically significant region of Virginia.
	www.dcr.state.va.us /parks/wildroad.htm (1053 words)

	Your Quilt Store - Wilderness Road Quilt Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Danville’s prominent location on the Wilderness Road caused it to become a crossroad for early settlers, and a center of political activity.
		Wilderness Road Quilt CO is your full service quilt shop featuring quilting rulers, quilting notions, and several hundred bolts of quilting fabrics by many of the leading and well-known manufacturers and designers in the industry including Thimbleberries, RJR, Hoffman, Moda, Benartex and Woodrow.
		Wilderness Road Quilt CO is the area’s Authorized Bernina sewing machine dealer for sales and service.
	www.wildernessroadquilt.com /about (455 words)

	Bureau of Land Management Arizona - Aubrey Peak Wilderness Area
		The 15,400-acre Aubrey Peak Wilderness is located in Mohave County, 70 miles south of Kingman, Arizona and 40 miles east of Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
		The wilderness boundary lies a short distance west of Alamo Road on the powerline maintenance road.
		The Aubrey Peak Wilderness boundary is 4.5 miles south of the Signal Road/Alamo Road junction.
	www.blm.gov /az/rec/aubrey.htm (503 words)

	Wilderness Road - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wilderness Road, path following buffalo traces and Native American trails, more than 300 km (200 mi) long, extending from the Holston River valley...
		Subsequently Boone set out to explore and settle the wilderness around the Kentucky River, making the first of many trips into the region in 1767....
		Road, public way, usually maintained by governmental authority, for the passage of vehicles, people, or animals.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Wilderness_Road.html (113 words)

	Martin's Station - Home
		Nestled in the southwestern corner of Virginia, in the shadow of the Cumberland Gap along the old Wilderness Road, is the reconstructed Martin's Station.
		The Wilderness Road State Park in Ewing, Virginia, is home to the reconstructed station.
		Wilderness Road State Park provides a first-class learning environment for the visiting public.
	www.martinsstation.com (160 words)

	ClinchPowell.net -> R C & D -> Programs -> Tennessee Wilderness Road
		The Tennessee Wilderness Road is an interactive experience that will capture the interest of students of all ages.
		Wilderness - A wild, uncultivated region, as a forest or desert.
		Wilderness area: a region whose natural growth is protected by legislation and whose use is restricted.
	www.clinchpowell.net /rcd/wilderness.html (2079 words)

	Printer Friendly Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Keister came up with using the Wilderness Road to tie localities to the idea and to get it done by 2007, when Virginia will be seeing a lot of tourism traffic for its Jamestown celebration, the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
		The Wilderness Road, also known as the Great Road, Wagon Road and Valley Pike, was the route taken by settlers coming through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and places to the west.
		In Virginia, the road went between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny range of the Appalachians, generally following what are U.S. 11 and Interstate 81 from Winchester to Bristol and the Cumberland Gap today.
	www.roanoke.com /printer/printpage.aspx?arcID=25121 (362 words)

	Out On The Wilderness Road: Dr. Daniel R. Anderson-Little
		He says "This is a wilderness road." Not only is the road leading away from everything familiar, it is dangerous.
		First, Philip could go to the wilderness road and he could share his faith on the wilderness road because he knew Jesus.
		Even though Philip was alone on the wilderness road, he was part of something bigger.
	www.trinityucity.org /sermons/OutOnTheWildernessRoad.html (1557 words)

	Cumberland Gap Photos
		The old road through here was 3 lanes wide, and the area has been significantly restored.
		At one point, this used to be a road on embankment with a culvert at the creek.
		At the time I took my trip, parts of the Wilderness Road were covered by mudslides, as was the case here.
	www.ajfroggie.com /pics/cumberland-gap (712 words)

	Earthjustice: Newsroom
		The court ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed in December 2000 by the Absaroka Trust, a trust established by Livingston, Montana, resident James Sievers.
		The trust sought the proposed road to log and mine the inholding to construct and operate a hunting and fishing lodge.
		The Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, which adjoins the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park, is a 943,626-acre expanse of alpine lakes, sweeping tundra, steep canyons, and dense forests.
	www.earthjustice.org /news/display.html?ID=795 (434 words)

	12/21/00 -- Forest Service sued in Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness road dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The road would also be used to build a hunting and fishing lodge, cabins, septic tanks and installing a hydroelectric generator on the property, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court.
		Under the federal law, all road construction, logging, mining and motorized travel is banned in wilderness areas.
		Bob Ekey of The Wilderness Society said Thursday the society, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, the Park County Environmental Council and the Montana Wilderness Association plan to join the suit to defend the Forest Service's decision to turn down the road application.
	forests.org /archive/america/suedabbe.htm (638 words)

	Wilderness Road: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Wilderness Road was the principal route used by American and immigrant settlers into and across Kentucky[Click link for more facts about this topic] for more than fifty years.
		Daniel boone (november 2, 1734-september 26, 1820), was a famous united states pioneer and frontiersman who blazed the wilderness road and founded...
		(an improved all-weather road was opened for wagon and carriage travel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wilderness_road.htm (194 words)

	Wilderness Road Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Wilderness Road Records is a 16 track studio located in London, KY. specializing in Bluegrass Music.
		The biggest key to producing a great project is to feel at ease both while you are recording and after.
		Wilderness Road Records is able to give you a friendly comfortable atmosphere at a cost substantially lower than most all other studios in this class.
	users.adelphia.net /~hess03 (112 words)

	TIP#3: - SOME OLD TRAILS, TRACES AND PATHS TO GET GRANDPA FROM HERE TO THERE
		The wagon road was referred to as the Wilderness Road, the State Road or the Crab Orchard Road while Boone's Trace was just called that or "The Trace", plus in a couple of records the "old" Wilderness Road.
		The road ran from the neighborhood of Milford in Madison County; intersected with the original Wilderness Road at which is now Pittsburg in Laurel Conty; and the old road north of this intersection became generally known as the Crab Orchard Road.
		It took a branch west off the Wilderness Road near Logan's Station in Lincoln County, crossed the South Fork of the Rolling Fork River; passed thru a gap in the creeks and the Trace Fork of Pitman Creek in Taylor Conty.
	www.rootsquest.com /~jmurphy/lessons/tip_03.htm (1416 words)

	29/3/2004 -- Supreme Court to Hear Off-Road Vehicle Wilderness Case
		Wilderness Study Areas are lands that meet wilderness characteristics and are managed to preserve those values until Congress designates the areas as wilderness or releases the areas for non-wilderness management.
		Conservation groups contend that the BLM is mandated by the Administrative Procedures Act to protect these lands as wilderness until Congress determines otherwise.
		The case is considered of utmost importance by many conservationists, as the Bush administration has pressed ahead with far reaching policy changes to how the BLM protects and manages public lands under its authority.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=30552 (622 words)

	Early American Roads and Trails
		He insisted that the road be 12 feet wide so that horse-drawn wagons could travel on it to haul the necessary supplies for his advancing army.
		The road followed the fall line, a geographical feature caused by erosion, a separation line stretching from Maryland all the way to Georgia, running between the river tidelands and inland elevations on the Atlantic coast--it defines an east and west division between the upper and lower elevations.
		The road then continued on to Vandalia, Illinois, but it did not continue on to Jefferson City, Missouri, as had been planned, the idea being that the road was to go through state capitals as it moved westward.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~gentutor/trails.html (4620 words)

	Holgate Wilderness
		This congressionally-designated Wilderness area on Long Beach Island was set aside to host thousands of shorebirds that migrate and feed along the coast of New Jersey.
		Holgate is the only wilderness beach in New Jersey, a state where only two percent of the land is protected as Wilderness.
		Now, The Wilderness Society and partner groups are putting pressure on the state of New Jersey to gain the road closure.
	www.wilderness.org /WhereWeWork/NewJersey/holgate.cfm (499 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		The trust appealed the decision in December 2000, stating that the Forest Service was obligated to allow private landowners adequate access to their property and that it should pay for the proposed six-mile-long, 20-foot-wide private gravel road.
		No roads have been constructed in the wilderness area since it was designated by the U.S. Congress in 1978.
		Anderson, who cited the Wilderness Act and the National Interest Lands Conservation Act, said that adequate access already was provided by nonmechanized means such as foot or horseback travel on trails, or by helicopter, which the trust already has been using to access the property.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/05/10/build/local/86-road.inc (286 words)

	Welcome to the Wilderness Road Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Wilderness Road and the underground artist Skip Williamson created Snuk Comix round 1970.
		A CD of the first Wilderness Road album on Columbia: "Wilderness Road"- remastered for CD by sound meister John Mc Dermott.
		A CD of the second Wilderness Road album--remastered for CD by John McDermott: "Sold for the Prevention of Disease Only."
	wildernessroad.net (422 words)

	Girl Scouts Wilderness Road Council
		Girl Scouts-Wilderness Road Council will be recognized as the leading organization that empowers and inspires each girl to realize her full potential and seize her life opportunities.
		Girl Scouts-Wilderness Road Council provides dynamic and innovative programming in a pluralistic environment to help all girls develop values, life skills and self-esteem to achieve their full potential and a joy for living.
		Girl Scouts Wilderness Road Council is one of the oldest and most successful councils in the country.
	www.volunteersolutions.org /uwbg/org/223545-printer.html (416 words)

	The Wilderness Road Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Foremost among Indian routes in the eastern United States was the Warrior's Path, which looped southward through the Cumberland Gap, connecting the Ohio valley and that of the Shenandoah and the Potomac.
		Branches of the road also continued southeast to the Cherokee and Creek settlements.
		In short, the path laid down by animals and native peoples was ready to be adapted by opportunists from the colonies on the Atlantic seaboard.
	www.nps.gov /cuga/wildrnss.htm (259 words)

	Vail Daily News for Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado - News
		Udall said negotiations over Deep Creek wilderness legislation are at an impasse, and this proposed designation is a compromise solution that could protect the stream and its adjacent lands.
		He also said a wilderness bill should allow the federal government to secure water to preserve the area - called a federal reserve water right.
		Compton said areas designated as wilderness are being managed that way already, with no logging and no motorized vehicles.
	www.vaildaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73125181026177&Avis=VD&Dato=20030204&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=302040101&Ref=AR (1310 words)

	Wilderness Battlefield
		Built in the 1790's and located near the crucial Wilderness road intersection, the Ellwood plantation was the scene of activity for both Federal and Confederate troops during the Civil War Battles of Chancellorsville and The Wilderness.
		The Friends of Wilderness Battlefield (FOWB), in partnership with the park, staffed Ellwood with volunteers and opened the building to the public for the first time over the summer of 1998.
		A major portion of the Wilderness Battlefield was added to the park in the Spring of 2002.
	www.nps.gov /frsp/wild.htm (830 words)

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		We then took a fourteen mile road, which became progressively worse for wear as we went deeper into the wlderness, requiring high four wheel drive, to the Rapid River.
		From early morning risings, to dawning ponchos for an evening rain storm and setting up a tarp to cover the cooking and eating area during that rain, the scouts continued their wilderness camp, experiencing and learning to live with the changes mother nature dealt them along the way.
		Finally, as sad as it was for the experience to end, the time came for the scouts to clean up, break camp and ensure that the area was left in a better condition than what they found it...and then leave for home.
	www.jeffhead.com /wildernesscamp (832 words)

	Wilderness Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Road into the Kentucky and Ohio Valleys carved out by Daniel Boone and 30 other frontiersmen in 1775.
		One of the main areas of this road was the Cumberland Gap.
		This great site has lots of details about the Road and its travelers.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/us/wildernessroaddef.htm (67 words)

	Wilderness.net- Ibex Wilderness
		The Ibex Hills form a craggy, north-south divide between the alluvial slopes of Greenwater Valley on the east and the raggedy Black Mountains on the west.
		The ruins of at least a half-dozen old talc mines are scattered forlornly throughout the area, and a non-Wilderness road corridor extends from the southeast to the major mining region.
		Wilderness.net is a partnership project of the Wilderness Institute at The University of Montana's College of Forestry and Conservation,
	www.wilderness.net /index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=256 (302 words)

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