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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ITB_three-states-cornerstone_Cumberland-Gap-TN.html
The cornerstone for Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee is on Three States Peak. The first Virgina - North Carolina (later Tennessee) boundary at this point was surveyed in 1779 by Dr. Thomas Walker and Col. Richard Henderson. The present line and c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ISZ_cumberland-gap_Cumberland-Gap-TN.html
First explored, 1750; Long Hunters used it until 1760, and Daniel Boone in 1769, cutting the Wilderness Trail through it in 1775. Hosts of pioneers followed even before the road was built in 1796. Postal service was established in 1795 and a post …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ISX_harrow-school_Cumberland-Gap-TN.html
Founded by Rev. & Mrs. A. A. Myers in 1890. First classes held in basement of Congregational Church on site of present Cumberland Gap School; later moved 1/2 mile west to Harrow Hall. Operated as a division of its successor, Lincoln Memorial Unive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNWK_lincoln-and-cumberland-gap_Harrogate-TN.html
Cumberland Gap became the principal passage between the eastern and western theaters of operation in the Upper South during the war. Whichever side held the high ground here held the Gap. In 1861, Confederate Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer's men occ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNWJ_lincoln-memorial-university_Harrogate-TN.html
"If you come through this misery alive... I want you to do something for all those mountain people who have been shut out of the world all these years." These words of President Abraham Lincoln to General O. O. Howard in 1863 proved to be the cata…
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