A Little Bench is a photograph by Sandra Clark which was uploaded on April 8th, 2014.
A Little Bench
An Herb garden back years ago was for many things. This one here grew lavender to sweep in the cracks of the house to make the house smell... more
by Sandra Clark
Title
A Little Bench
Artist
Sandra Clark
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Photograph
Description
An Herb garden back years ago was for many things. This one here grew lavender to sweep in the cracks of the house to make the house smell fresher.
this was taken at the Daniel Boone Block House.
The original Blockhouse, built by John Anderson near the North Fork of the Holston River in what is now Virginia’s East Carter’s valley, was where the Wilderness Trail began. It was the last safe haven for those migrating toward Kentucky, except for a chain of forts, most of which were evacuated during the height of the Indian Wars. The Blockhouse was specifically designed to be easily defended and virtually impenetrable by Indians.
The Blockhouse was an important landmark for frontier travelers and served as the gathering place for hundreds of pioneers traveling the Wilderness Road to Kentucky between 1775 and 1800. It sat near the intersection of the pioneer roads coming down the valley of Virginia, trails up from the Carolinas and the Great Warriors Path connecting the Holston and Watauga Valley with the Ohio Valley. Various pioneer journals, the earliest being Brown’s (1782) and Filson’s (1784), identify the Blockhouse as the starting point for the Wilderness Road and provide distances from the Blockhouse to each of the stations between the Blockhouse and Philadelphia to the east and to Crab Orchard Kentucky in the west, where the Road ended. A monument was erected adjacent to the original Blockhouse site in 1921.
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April 8th, 2014
