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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Example Sentences

The project includes replacing underground lighting in the Cochrane Tunnel in Jefferson County and the Cumberland Gap Tunnel in Bell County.

From Washington Times

There’s an ballad about the Cumberland Gap that’s been sung in white communities forever.

From New York Times

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

When Daniel Boone wandered through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky in the late 1700s, the state was filled with wildlife.

From New York Times

“I didn’t realize what they’d do to you until it was too late,” Craig said in an interview from his home in rural Pathfork, Ky., an Appalachian Mountain town near the Cumberland Gap.

From Washington Post