Historical Highway Markers

Carter's Fort

KA-10

Three miles east, in Rye Cove, stood Carter's Fort, built by Thomas Carter in 1784. It was a station on the old Wilderness Road from North Carolina to Kentucky.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1930

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