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Kingsport: Crossroads of Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail
Today, the 250th anniversary of Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail was celebrated at Netherland Inn in Kingsport. Sycamore Shoals, in present-day Elizabethton, was the site of the 1775 Transylvania Purchase, where Daniel Boone was hired to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. While this marked the legal and ceremonial beginning of the Wilderness…
Kingsport Spirit 