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Cumberland Gap
noun
- a pass in the Cumberland Mountains at the junction of the Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee boundaries. 1,315 feet (401 meters) high.
Cumberland Gap
- Pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that was used by early settlers to move west.
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Eastern companies were taking up principalities, and at Cumberland Gap, those helmeted Englishmen had acquired a kingdom.
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We went on through Cumberland Gap to Knoxville, where we had a snowstorm.
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Soon they came to Cumberland Gap, a narrow mountain valley which led into Kentucky.
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Was the loss of Cumberland Gap a trivial matter, and did it in fact not cut in two our great strategic front?
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The story of their expedition through Cumberland Gap, and their long hunt, is now familiar to readers of Western history.
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