Boone's Trace

Source of this routing follows:

From: "Sharon Karns" 
 To: KYBATH-L@rootsweb.com
 Subject: [KYBATH] Ky. Trails
 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:38:06 -0800

BOONE'S TRACE: This ran through Bell County and as far as Flat Lick,
 along the same general route as the Wilderness Road. It entered into
 what is now Laurel County from the south, about 2 miles apart from the
 Wilderness Road - both trails touched at only two places, i.e., for a
 short distance at Racoon Springs and crossed at London. At this latter
 branch to Milford, the Wilderness Road crossed Boone's Trace at what is
 now Oakley in Laurel County and possibly again in Madison County. 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. Boone's
 Trace passed through Bell County, Knox County, Laurel County, Rockcastle
 County and Madison County, Ky. This was the trail blazed by Daniel Boone
 when he and his men entered into what is now Kentucky through the
 Cumberland Gap in March 1775. Boone used an existing Warrior's Path for
 the beginning of the trip, and Skagg's Trace from the Cumberland Gap
 into Kentucky. At Hazel Patch (current Laurel County), Boone left the
 old trails and formed a new one which proceeded north from there to the
 Rockcastle River - over the hillsides to Roundstone Creek in Rockcastle
 County. This passed what is now Berea to the east and near what was
 later named Boone's Blue Lick. They then crossed the Hayes and Hart
 forks of Silver Creek in Madison County to Taylor's Fork near Richmond.
 Boone established a little known fort here called Twitties Fort. They
 then went along Otter Creek to the Kentucky River and established the
 large fort at Boonesboro on 1 Apr 1775.

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