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The Cumberland Pass or Cumberland Water Gap was widened by loggers under Daniel Boone to make it more accessible for pioneers into the frontier. The route was not discovered by Boone but was along used highway of the American Indians that a Virginia Doctor named Thomas Walker discovered on one of his wilderness explorations.

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