Skaggs 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

SKAGG'S TRACE: This route left the Wilderness Road at Hazel Patch in
 Laurel County; crossed at Rockcastle Co KY and ended up at Crab Orchard
 in Lincoln Co. KY. (Hathaway). This was a hunter's trail leading from
 Flat Lick to the Dick's (Dix) River in Lincoln County, KY. It was named
 for Henry or Richard Skaggs who hunted here as early as 1769. The trace
 left the Warrior's Path at Flat Lick in Knox County, crossed Stinking
 Creek and went northwest along the west branch of Turkey Creek. It
 passed north of Barbourville, west along the Poplar Branch of Richland
 Creek, north across several branches of the Middle Fork, crossed
 Robinson Creek, passed Raccoon Spring, went to Laurel River on the Happy
 Hollow Branch. From there is passed the current town of London on the
 east, proceeded to the headwaters of the Hazel Patch Creek, down that
 creek to Rockcastle River, then down to Skeggs Creek. It then crossed
 Little Negro Creek, down Dick's River to Crab Orchard and Stanford. It
 is noted that more pioneers used Skagg's Trace than Boone's Trace.

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