In 1775, Boone returned with 30 ax-wielding men to build the Wilderness Road 200 miles from what is now northeast Tennessee through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky. Early settlers from East ...

Fern Lake is visible from Cumberland Gap National Historical Park near Middlesboro, Ky. Mike Wilkinson Provided by The Nature Conservancy A decades-long effort to protect a pristine Kentucky lake ...

The Cumberland Gap, located at the point where the states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia now come together, was the key, the doorway to the fertile Ohio River Valley. Dr. Thomas Walker ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Saturday, Feb. 22. The Cumberland Gap and Russellville, Ky., are in possession of the National forces. Russelville is situated in Southern Kentucky. It is the capital of Logan ...

The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, located in parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, is within the Appalachian Mountains and contains notable caves, cliffs, pinnacles and more ...

LETTER FROM GEN. GEORGE W. MORGAN. CUMBERLAND GAP, Sept. 7, 1862. To the Editors of Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio: GENTLEMEN: Please say to the relatives and friends of the ...

According to the Kentucky Historical Society ... a meteorite impact structure.If you look over the city from the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, you can see how it sits in what some ...

Although it is a bit more popular than Mammoth Caves National Park in west-central Kentucky, the numbers are still low. Cumberland Gap is one of the most beautiful spots in Tennessee, and with a ...