{"id":3175,"date":"2026-03-10T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:08:53","slug":"daniel-boone-was-hired-in-1775-to-cut-the-wilderness-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3175","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Boone Was Hired in 1775 to Cut the Wilderness Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 131px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/79\/Unfinished_portrait_of_Daniel_Boone_by_Chester_Harding_1820.jpg\/173px-Unfinished_portrait_of_Daniel_Boone_by_Chester_Harding_1820.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"168\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Boone<br \/>Painting by Chester Harding<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Daniel Boone was hired in 1775 to cut the Wilderness Road<\/strong>. The road connected Virginia via the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky. The trail was rough and rocky; settlers walked the trail or rode horses. In 1790 the road was improved so that wagons could travel on it. Children can learn more about the Wilderness Road at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/revolut\/jb_revolut_boone_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Boone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Boone was hired in 1775 to cut the Wilderness Road. The road connected Virginia via the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky. The trail was rough and rocky; settlers walked the trail or rode horses. In 1790 the road was improved so that wagons could travel on it. Children can learn more about the Wilderness Road <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3175' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5375,3342,3340,152,5374,3341],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5375","tag-cumberland-gap","tag-daniel-boone","tag-kentucky","tag-march-10","tag-wilderness-road","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22063,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/22063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}