Frontier Cabin on Wilderness Road

A recreation of a frontier-style cabin stands before a scenic mountain backdrop at Martin’s Station, an early settlement and fortification in the western part of Virginia along what came to be known as the Wilderness Road. Originally a buffalo pass that was also used by Indigenous people, in the eighteenth century the road was the most passable route west from Virginia to the Ohio River, through the mountain pass that became known as the Cumberland Gap. Hundreds of thousands of white settlers used the Wilderness Road between 1775 and 1810 to stake land claims in the region that became Kentucky, and Martin’s Station was a well-documented stop. This cabin is part of a living history recreation at Wilderness Road State Park.