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Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail

Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail

The Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail begins at Long Island of the Holston in Kingsport, near the site of the Netherland Inn, the nation's only registered historical site which was both a stagecoach stop and a boatyard. Boone and his group of ax men met on Long Island on March 10, 1775, to blaze the trail through 200 miles of Virginia wilderness to the Cumberland Gap.

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