Cumberland Gap|Cumberland Mountains in "A Name for the City" (Location)

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Cumberland Gap
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The "Cumberland Gap" through which the three earliest white settlers in Jefferson travel into Tennessee is a narrow pass over the Cumberland Mountains near the intersection of the states of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee (202). It was a major route over the Appalachians for the pioneers who first inhabited the frontier southwest.

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