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Athawominee - The Warrior's Path
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Athawominee - The Warrior's Path
The routing used in this video meets two of the trail finding principles (avoiding elevation changes
and maintaining direction) very well. The third principle, "repeatability", bears further research.
Several sections between Tyner and Manchester do not follow any watercourse, and the local topography would
have made finding the correct hollows to follow highly problematic. Travelers could have been discovered
them by trial and error and used some sort of trail marks to indicate the correct path, but that would have
been a poor substitute for routes that followed creeks and rivers.
In considering this issue, I have come to the belief that repeatability is a
much neglected principle of trail making. There are many hollows
the can be strung together to (eventually) reach a desired destination, but attempting to convey the
complex directions (or even to retain them in one's memory for future use) without the use of obvious
natural landmarks would have made many of the possible paths through these hills of little practical use.
Except for a short section north of the Cumberland Gap, the Warrior's Path follows US Rt. 24E through this area.
Although much of the surrounding area is within Daniel Boone National Forest,
hiking along a Federal highway would not make for the most interesting of paths to take.
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
Kingdom Come State Park near Cumberland, Ky.
Lodging
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park near Corbin, Ky.
Pine Mountain State Resort Park near Pineville
Cumberland Manor Bed and Breakfast in Middlesborough
Quoted from: http://www.southerncherokeenationky.com/historystories/ "The Cumberland River was called Ta-Eache, meaning the River of the Blue Flute by the ruling Chickamaugans whereas the southern River Shawnee called it the River of the Shawandasse. Burnside Ky became a huge Chickamauga Cherokee commerce center. This commerce center was called Salachi by the Chickamaugans, later Fort Somerset was built by the invading settlers which became a disgrace to the whites. And Wayne County Ky at �Doubleheads Cave� (Hines Cave) near present day Mill Springs in Wayne County became the most used diplomatic center for the Chickamauga Cherokee northern provincial capital. Chickamauga Cherokee and southern River Shawnee performed ceremonial bonding there. This was an area dominated, controlled, and ruled by the Chickamaugans on which the southern Cumberland River Shawnee and Chickasaws allied their support." "The honored burial chambers at Doubleheads Cave in southeast Kentucky were the resting places of a great people, the Chickamauga Cherokee! The three Great falls area of McCreary County became the most holy of sacred grounds: Ywahoo Falls, Cumberland Falls, and Eagle Falls. All was the Land of the Thunder-Bolt People, the Cherokee, THE THUNDER PEOPLE of the northern territorial nation of Chickamaugans, and on the other side of the Cumberland River the mighty territory of the southern River Shawandasse. Both Shawnee and Chickamauga Cherokee lived on both sides of the Cumberland River yet both understood this territorial marker between the two mighty nations. The Ky Cumberland River was the traditional northern marker of the mighty Cherokee Nation. This was the Cherokee in the north."
