KENTUCKY ROAD The early trails/roads of SW VA is one of my favorite subject over the past three years. I have posted an article I wrote two years ago to the List. What makes it hard is that most trails or roads had more than one name, or a different name for a different segment of the roads, and often had different branches or spurs. Larry Fleenor in The Bear Grass says the Kentucky Road was also called the Wilderness Road, the Great Warrior's Path, the Boone Trail, or the Main Western Road. I used primarily his data to show the Road on the Scott Co. map. It shows it running from south of Weber City thru Gate City, then to Speers Ferry, up to Duffield, then over the mtn. to Jonesville passing Stickleyville. I also included the Fincastle Road he discribes. In Scott Co. it runs from east of Dungannon down the river and "through Fort Blackmore to state [route] 649. It joins the Wilderness/KY Road "on Stock Creek via the Rainbow Bridge." He says that some locals still call it the Fincastle Road. I have traced the Fincastle Road from Fincastle to Newport, Giles Co. thru the Narrows and up Wolf Creek to Tazewell and then to near Castlewood. The USGS topo maps show a Blue Grass trail running from Newport Giles Co. to Saltville following State route #42 and further down the North Fork. There was a Cumberland road they went from Narrows up Green River to Bluefield and Tazewell. There is some question after that but I suppose that it goes to the Cumberland Gap give its name. Roads get names from where they go. I believe that a major road came down the Great Valley of VA mostly following U.S. Hwy 11, the Robert E. Lee Hwy. In Wash. Co. there was a Reedy Creek road and Island Creek Road. Part of Reedy Creek road is the Black Hollow road. A major road is mentioned on deeds in that area. I don't say that this is for sure. I only know that this is what my limited research shows. I'm open to documented correction. -eddie . . . get a life. Eternal Life!