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Wilderness Road Block House
A replica of the Anderson Blockhouse that was built in the Natural Tunnel State Park in 2003. The original Blockhouse was built by John Anderson in 1775 in the East Carter Valley of what is now Scott County, Virginia. It became an important stop-off point for the many settlers that traveled through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. The original Blockhouse burned in 1876.
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