A Great Leap Westward



Locations
Participants

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Place
1779/00/00 James Robertson leads an overland expedition composed of men, goods and horses and other livestock through the Cumberland Gap and Kentucky, then south into what is now Nashville, Tennessee. Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Tennessee
1779/00/00 James Robertson leads an overland expedition composed of men, goods and horses and other livestock through the Cumberland Gap and Kentucky, then south into what is now Nashville, Tennessee. Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Kentucky
1779/12/22 Col John Donelson and his party of nearly 200, including about 30 slaves, leave the Wautauga Settlements by boat from Ft Patrick Henry, in what is now North Carolina, destine for Cumberland country.
1780/01/00 John Donelson leads a flotilla of about 40 boats down the Holston and Tennessee Rivers, and up the Ohio and Cumberland River for a nearly 1,000 miles into what will become Tennessee.
1780/04/17 John Donelson meets up with James Robertson at Big Salt Lick and establishes Fort Nashborough, this will eventually become Nashville. A compass and a desk belonging to Donelson that were brought down the river from Wautauga can be found at Cleveland Hall. Cleveland Hall, Nashville, TN
1780/04/17 John Donelson meets up with James Robertson at Big Salt Lick and establishes Fort Nashborough, this will eventually become Nashville. A compass and a desk belonging to Donelson that were brought down the river from Wautauga can be found at Cleveland Hall. Nashville, TN, Tennessee

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