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Daniel Boone lead settlers through the 'Cumberland Gap' to forge the 'Wilderness Trail' to open up travel to the west.
It became a large water system for Indian's westward movement.
The secession of the upper-South was so important to the Confederacy for the following reasons: Virginia assured the control of a part of the Ohio River's line and the northeastern part of the Allegheny Tennessee assured the control over the Southwestern part of the Allegheny , the important gaps of Cumberland and Rossville and covered the vital railroad connection Memphis- Chattanooga-Knoxville-Lynchburg-Richmond. Furthermore it would have been possible to build forts where the Tennessee River and Cumberland run at a distance of no more than roughly 20 kilometers each other, thus preventing an invading force to come through that gap. Arkansas and Tennessee assured the control of many kilometers of the River Mississippi.
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The address of the Friends Of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Inc is: 2116 Cumberland Ave, Middlesboro, KY 40965
Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee
The Cumberland Gap is a narrow pass in the Cumberland Mountains, which is in the Appalachian Mountains of the the USA.
Cumberland Gap Tunnel was created in 1996.
Daniel Boone discovered the cumberland gap!!!!
The Cumberland Gap is reportedly 12 miles (19 kilometers) in length.
the Wilderness road was built through the Cumberland gap
Wilderness Road
Cumberland Gap - folk song - was created in 1924-06.
The pass through the Appalachian Mountains is called the Cumberland Gap.
Cumberland Gap National Historic Park has a total area of 20,505.6 acres.