Submitted by: Sheila Kidwell
Wilderness Trail - Opened Kentucky and the West to rapid settlement and major development. First wagon road built by Kentucky (1796), Crab Orchard to Cumberland Gap. A principal highway, maintained as a turnpike "Toll Road" for 80 years.

State Marker 55, London, US 25, Laurel County

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