As early as 1779 and 1780, many settlers traveled the Cumberland Trace through what is now Taylor County. Branching off from the Wilderness Road near Logan's Station in Lincoln County, forty miles east, it was the trail used by pioneers who came through the Cumberland Gap to settle the then new lands of Kentucky and Tennessee. Turning west from Logan's Station, the trace crossed the Rolling Fork River, went down to Robinson Creek in what is now Taylor County, then near Buckhorn Creek and down the south side of the Trace Fork of Sinking Creek, also called Pittman Creek. It crossed the Green River at Pittman's Station and continued south across the Cumberland River to the site that is now Nashville.
