Cumberland Gap
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The Cumberland Gap is a pass in the eastern United States through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains and near the tripoint of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennesse
The Cumberland Gap viewed from the town of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, in 2025
The gap viewed from Pinnacles Overlook in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in 2025
The saddle of Cumberland Gap along the Wilderness Road
Union soldiers passing through Cumberland Gap, 1863
Wilderness Road
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The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. Although this road goes through the Cumberland Gap into southern K
Cumberland Gap
…Daniel Boone, making it accessible to pioneers who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee. An important part of the Wilderness Road, it is now part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the…
Wilderness Road
George Caleb Bingham, Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap (1851–2, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum)