<P> In 1775 Daniel Boone , hired by the Transylvania Company , arrived in the region leading a company of men to widen the path through the gap to make settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee easier . On his arrival Boone discovered that Martin had beaten him to Powell Valley , where Martin and his men were clearing land for their own settlement -- the westernmost settlement in English colonial America at the time . By the 1790s the trail that Boone and his men built had been widened to accommodate wagon traffic and sometimes became known as the Wilderness Road . </P>
<P> In 1775 Daniel Boone , hired by the Transylvania Company , arrived in the region leading a company of men to widen the path through the gap to make settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee easier . On his arrival Boone discovered that Martin had beaten him to Powell Valley , where Martin and his men were clearing land for their own settlement -- the westernmost settlement in English colonial America at the time . By the 1790s the trail that Boone and his men built had been widened to accommodate wagon traffic and sometimes became known as the Wilderness Road . </P>
who led the crew that cut through the cumberland gap
who led the crew that cut through the cumberland gap
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone