Cumberland Gap

American  

noun

1. a pass in the Cumberland Mountains at the junction of the Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee boundaries. 1,315 feet (401 meters) high.

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Cumberland Gap Cultural  

1. Pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that was used by early settlers to move west.

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Cumberland Gap

Since the 2020 census, several Tennessee communities have pursued their own second counts, including La Vergne and Cumberland Gap, as have three communities in Washington state - Sumas, Toledo and Springdale.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 5, 2023

In the visitor center, I was schooled on westward expansion, frontiersman Daniel Boone and his role in carving out the Cumberland Gap, the primary route west by way of Kentucky.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2020

Steve Sarkisian won nine games his first season but fell the Cumberland Gap short of winning everyone over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2015

Penix followed the famous frontiersman's route into Virginia and through Cumberland Gap into Kentucky.

From US News ● Mar. 26, 2015

The very center of hoosierdom in the South is the Cumberland Plateau with its associated Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland River, Cumberland Gap, and Cumberland Presbyterianism.

From The Word Hoosier; John Finley Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2 by Dunn, Jacob Piatt