CUMBERLAND GAP

natural passage through the Cumberland Mts., near the point where Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee meet. The gap was formed by the erosive action of a stream that once flowed there. It was explored and named in 1750 by Dr. Thomas Walker, leader of a land company exploration party. Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road ran through the gap. A strategic point in the Civil War, the gap was held alternately by Confederate and Union forces. Cumberland Gap National Historical Park was established in 1940 (see National Parks and Monuments, table).

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The Knight of the Cumberland
Book by John Fox Jr.; Charles Scribners Sons, 1906
Subjects: Fiction
...earth with the warmth and light of old wine and, going single-file up through the jagged gap that the dripping of water has worn down through the Cumberland Mountains from crest to valley-level, a gray horse and two big mules, a man and two...
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Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland
Book by Jeanette Keith, Jack Temple Kirby; University of North Carolina Press, 1995
Subjects: Dayton (Tenn.)--Rural Conditions, Scopes, John Thomas--Trials, Litigation, Etc
...progressives and conservatives in the Upper Cumberland battled over roads and schools. To win...political patronage and local control. The gap between what reformers wanted and what...and sometimes conflicted. The Upper Cumberland progressive effort and local resistance...
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Children of the Cumberland
Book by Claudia Lewis, William T. Buttrick Jr.; Columbia University Press, 1946
to go about the community looking for others to fill the gap. One day I stopped in to see young Mary Eldridge, perhaps the youngest mother in Summerville, certainly the youngest looking...
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The North American Midwest: A Regional Geography
Book by John H. Garland; Wiley, 1955
Subjects: Middle West--Description And Travel
...directing Americans westward, the Cumberland Gap altitude 1315 feet ranks high...serve to open the barrier of the Cumberland Front and to funnel frontiersmen...among the wooded slopes of the Cumberland Plateau; today their descendants...
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The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: January 1 - May 31, 1864 - Vol. 10
Book by John Y. Simon, Ulysses S. Grant; Southern Illinois University Press, 1982
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S--(Ulysses Simpson)--1822-1885--Manuscripts, Manuscripts, American, Presidents--United States--Manuscripts, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
...spring is Carthage on the Cumberland. The road from that place...opinion, move through Pound Gap to Estillville. A Cavalry...me that a force moving from Cumberland Gap could be expected to accomplish...and open communication with Cumberland Gap. It would not, however...
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Using Spreadsheets and Streaming Video for Developmental, Teacher Education, and General Education Mathematics Courses
Journal article by Mark Shore, Joanna Shore, Stacey Boggs; Mathematics and Computer Education, Vol. 38, 2004
Subjects: Allegany College-Cumberland MD, Colleges & universities, Educational software, Mathematics education, Spreadsheets, Streaming media, Teacher education
...phenomena" (p. 297). While the gender gap for mathematics has narrowed over the past decade, the technology gender gap is still an area in which little improvement...that this project will help narrow this gap, by giving all students more time using...
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Mapping Kentucky's Frontier Trails through Geographical Information and Cartographic Applications
Journal article by Karl B. Raitz, Jeffrey E. Levy, Richard A. Gilbreath; The Geographical Review, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life--History, Frontier life--History, Geography, Historical--Research, Historical geography--Research, Kentucky--Environmental aspects, Kentucky--History
...prominent landmarks as Cumberland Gap and Pine Mountain Gap (Eckert 1995, xxxiii...stream junctions, ridge gaps, and forts or other...companions passed through the Cumberland and Pine Mountain gaps...Warriors Path, including gaps and stream junctions...distance. Beginning at Cumberland Gap, we plotted the Warriors...
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Evaluating the Construct Validity of Sense of Belonging as a Measure of Landscape Perception
Journal article by Christopher D. Jones, Michael E. Patterson, William E. Hammitt; Journal of Leisure Research, Vol. 32, 2000
Subjects: Landscape assessment--Psychological aspects, Recreation--Psychological aspects, Visual perception--Psychological aspects
...during on-site interviews at Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, Tennessee...Thus, it may be interpreted that Cumberland Gap visitors expressed a stronger...expressed a stronger belonging to the Cumberland Gap landscape also preferred the highly...
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Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia
Journal article by Shannon H. Wilson; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 73, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia (Book)--Book reviews
...8131-2389-5.) "Goodness, Cumberland Gap!" wrote Confederate Edward O...Confederate causes. Control of the Cumberland Gap and other mountain passes...their experience. Describing Cumberland Gap, an Alabama soldier observed...
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Miners and Moonshiners: Historic Industrial Uses of Tennessee Caves
Journal article by Joseph C. Douglas; Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA, Vol. 26, 2001
...on the banks of the Roaring and Cumberland rivers there were "immense caverns...Harrogate, for example, developed Cumberland Gap Cave as a tourist attraction around...Caverns in Sullivan County, and Cumberland Caverns in Warren County, among...
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Rebuilding Daniel Boone's Footsteps
Magazine article by Fran Severn; American Forests, Vol. 108, Winter 2003
Subjects: Boone, Daniel (1734-1820), Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Historic preservation, Historic trails
...But the staff at Tennessees Cumberland Gap National Historical Park enthusiastically...trail Daniel Boone blazed through Cumberland Gap from Virginia to Kentucky...the Wilderness Road that crossed Cumberland Mountain was destroyed by highway...
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Bridging the Gap
Magazine article by Maureen Buell; Corrections Today, Vol. 66, October 2004
Subjects: Correctional institutions--Services, Mentally disabled persons--Services, Prisoners--Health aspects, United States. National Institute of Corrections
Bridging the Gap. by Maureen Buell Since the mid-1980s, the National Institute...Monroe County Mental Office Health Clinic for Socio- Legal Services Cumberland PA Cumberland County Cumberland/Perry Mental County Prison Health and Mental...
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The Croglin Vampire
Magazine article by Richard Whittington-Egan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 286, June 2005
Subjects: Cumberland, England--Myths and legends, Haunted houses--Myths and legends, Vampires--Myths and legends
...rigours of a bone-biting Cumberland winter, the bright, warm...window. And there, at the gap, peering straight in at her...arbitrarily declared that the Cumberland phenomenon can be definitely...goes back to 1293, with a gap between the appointment of...
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The Death and Life of Yellow Creek: In the Mountains and Hollows of Kentucky Coal Country, One Group of Citizens Learns What It Takes to Protect Their Lives and Their Land
Magazine article by Will Nixon; E, Vol. 4, September 1993
Subjects: Kentucky--Environmental aspects, Water pollution--Environmental aspects
...greenery of the mountains near the Cumberland Gap. It then drops several hundred...14 miles from Middlesboro to the Cumberland River, passing three small communities...enter the forest of the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park, an uninhabited...
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The Changing Fortunes of a Small Town in Kentucky
Magazine article by Gary A. O'Dell, Duane D. Allen; Focus, Vol. 45, Winter 1999
Subjects: Cities and towns--Civic improvement, Civic improvements (Municipalities), Kentucky--Description and travel, Urban renewal--Planning
...threads the ragged edge of the Cumberland Escarpment. Along the wayside...engaged in cutting a road from Cumberland Gap to the Kentucky River. The trail...ultimately merged with those of the Cumberland River, following a long meandering...
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Old Skiffle Dogs Learn New Tricks; the Music Which Began Britpop Half a Century Ago Is Back, Helping Close the Generation Gap in the Fashionable Cellars of Liverpool. David Charters Reports
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 15, 2005
...Ago Is Back, Helping Close the Generation Gap in the Fashionable Cellars of Liverpool...he says. ``We thought there could be a gap in the market for skiffle, not just for...Dont You Rock Me Daddy-O, Cumberland Gap, Gamblin Man, Grand Coolie Dam, Tom Dooley...
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Blunder Costly in Mill Springs Battle
Newspaper article by Stuart W. Sanders; The Washington Times, November 29, 1997
...Kentucky, Zollicoffer occupied Cumberland Gap. Learning of these movements...Confederates were driven back to Cumberland Gap. Several weeks later, the...troops could be supplied via the Cumberland River. Entrenched at an angle...
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Woman Put Geographic History on U.S. Map
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 26, 2007
...Shenandoah Valley through gaps in the Blue Ridge Mountains...Mississippi, the Tennessee and the Cumberland (and, even farther west...mouths of the Tennessee and the Cumberland." Grants combined land and...abandon the line of the Cumberland, and fall back ... farther...advance east to the mountain gap at Chattanooga." Control...
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Hoping to Strike It Rich
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 25, 2009
...Southeast Community College in nearby Cumberland. "We really believe in order...in Lynch and nearby Benham and Cumberland are still standing. Gardner said...million people who visit the nearby Cumberland Gap National Historic Park each year...
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Across the Pond: Writer Building an Empire; Ian Starrett Has Been Travelling Thousands of Miles through America's Eastern States. He Reports on His Colourful Stateside Encounters and the Links He Found with Home
Newspaper article by Ian Starrett; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), July 23, 1999
...Wilderness Road, Shenandoah Valley, through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky. Even today, certainly from the...His 1850 painting Daniel Boone coming through the Cumberland Gap with a band of pioneers was used on the cover of Ulster...
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Cumberland Gap
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CUMBERLAND GAP natural passage through the Cumberland Mts., near the point where Virginia, Kentucky, and...was held alternately by Confederate and Union forces. Cumberland Gap National Historical Park was established in 1940...
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Cumberland Plateau
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...broken. The plateau is the source of the Cumberland River and several tributaries of the Tennessee...subsistence settlements in the area. Cumberland Gap provides a natural passage through the Cumberland Mts., a ridge of the plateau...
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Colonial Parkway connects some sites with Williamsburg. Cumberland Gap HP Ky., Tenn., Va. 1940 20,454 (8,281) Mountain pass of the Wilderness Road. See Cumberland Gap . Dayton Aviation Heritage HP W Ohio 1992 86 (35...
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Kentucky , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...West Virginia. Many rapid creeks in the Cumberland Mountains feed the Kentucky, the Cumberland, and the Licking rivers, which, together...Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site and Cumberland Gap National Historic Park are historic landmarks...
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Tennessee , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Tennessee the Great Smoky Mts., Cumberland Plateau, and the narrow river valleys...Cherokee National Forest, and Cumberland Gap National Historical Park are in...the Wilderness Road and Cumberland Gap. Others poled keelboats from the...
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