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ID: 6006508
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6006508
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Wilderness Road (route)  Wilderness Road (route)

Note: Was pioneers' route beginning in western Virginia & winding SW through Kentucky & then NW to the Ohio river; originally scouted by Daniel Boone in 1775; was heavily used in westward expansion; was abandoned as National Road came more into use in 1840s.

Names:
Wilderness Road (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Wilderness Road (route)  ............  Wilderness Road (route) (P)

Place Types:
route (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Wilderness Road..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1021
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1021
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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