Cumberland Gap is a narrow opening through the Cumberland Mountains, a long ridge within the Appalachian Mountains, near the junction of the U.S. states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. Famous in American colonial history for its role as a key passageway through the lower central Appalachians, it was an important part of the Wilderness Road and is now part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Long used by Native Americans, the Cumberland Gap was brought to the attention of settlers in 1750 by Dr. Thomas Walker, a Virginia physician and explorer. The path was explored by a team of frontiersmen led by Daniel Boone, making it accessible to pioneers who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee. What better representation of the Tri-States area than up on top of Cumberland Gap that gives you views of all three states! Can you imagine the Union and Confederate armies hoisting those cannons up these mountains?
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:06:37 +0000