Map of Cumberland and Franklin

I have had the good fortune to find a digital version of Ramsey's Map of Cumberland and Franklin, published in 1853. The map depicts Tennessee during the time of settlement, when it was the frontier of the Backcountry. It shows the road, named "Robertson's Route," leading southwest from the Wilderness Road (from Virginia to central Kentucky) into Middle Tennessee. Two areas of settlement are illustrated: Northeast Tennessee, lying between the Great Smokies and the Cumberland Mountains; and upper Middle Tennessee, accessed by way of Robertson's Route. In between these areas there was no settlement in early Tennessee history.

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