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ID: 7017646
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017646
Record Type:
physical
Cumberland Gap (pass)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 083 40 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -83.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Mountain pass in the Cumberland mountains in Kentucky & Tennessee; was explored by Daniel Boone in 18th cen.; was on early pioneer route, the Wilderness Road; was a strategic point in Civil War, often trading hands.
Names:
Cumberland Gap
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
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United States
(nation) (
P
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Cumberland Gap
(pass) (
P
)
Place Types:
pass (
preferred
,
C
)
historical park (
C
)
............
established 1940
Sources and Contributors:
Cumberland Gap..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 215
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS21006937
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park..........
[
VP
]
.................................................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1264
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 215
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS21006937
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1264
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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