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Where Is Cumberland Gap

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
November
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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berlaud Gap is situated about ten miles from Cumbcrland Ford, iu Teunesseo, and has been eclebrated for a century as a great dopression in the mountain ridge wliich traversos the continent iVom New Hampsbire to North Alabama. Througli this gap, very similar in appearance and characteristiü to the South Pass in the liocky Mountains, formerly the emigrants from Virginia and North Carolina passed on their way to tho virgiu wilds of the West. For half a ceutury thousanda upon tbousands poured through this natural gateway iuto tbe Mississippi Valley from the Atlantic slopes. Booue, Kcnton, and their pioneer confrères first entered tbe land of' "cane aud turkey ' over t".j prc-Adamite turnpike. It really forms to this hour the best, and, in faet, the only practieabU road for the transportador) of truops and heavy munitions of war from East Tenncssec into Keatuuky.

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Old News
Michigan Argus