Yesterday, the trail ran across the great valley of appalachia. The great valley extends from pennsylvania down through virginia. In the early 1700's, this was the primary migration path into what was then the colonial frontier. At the foot of the Wilderness Wagon Road was the Cumberland Gap and Daniel Boone's Wildrness Trail to Kentucky. Many of the immigrants seeking new land in southwest virginia were Scot-Irish or German families. The Appalachian Trail passes through a living history museum that was a farmstead settled during the colonial days and maintained as it was in the 1890's. The original log cabin built even earlier is still a part of the main family house.
Upstairs is a loom used to make linen and linsey-woolsey from the flax grown on the farm. Check out more info at www.settlersmuseum.com.
Today, I left the valley and climbed big walker mountain which forms one ridge of the great valley. It's clear after today's climb why the settler's smartly came down trails in the valleys!
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