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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NY3_dirt-and-log-forts_Middlesboro-KY.html
Where you see a picnic ground today, imagine a seven-sided structure made of earth and wooden walls, approximately 40 feet by 70 feet. The outer walls of this Civil War fort were approximately five feet high with an earth-covered powder magazine i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13AS_colonel-arthur-campbell_Middlesboro-KY.html
Grave of Colonel Arthur Campbell (1743-1811). Statesman, revolutionary soldier, justice, legislator, county lieutenant. Sons, James and John killed in War of 1812.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO00_generations-have-enjoyed-this-view_Middlesboro-KY.html
I cannot conceive of anyone passing this way who will not avail himself of taking this trail to the top of Pinnacle Mountain...there will be many pilgrimages...[to] this historic spot... The beauty of the mountains, the spirit of the pioneer and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZY_a-maze-of-mountains_Middlesboro-KY.html
The Cumberland Mountains on which you stand are only one link in a great chain of ridges and valleys that stretch 900 miles from New England to Alabama. The Appalachian wilderness was a 150-mile-wide wall to settlers looking west in the late 1700s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZX_named-for-a-british-lord_Middlesboro-KY.html
The town you see 1,400 feet below, the mountain on which you stand, and the Gap itself all bear the name of an English royal - the Duke of Cumberland. Prince William Augustus (1721-1765) was the third and favorite son of King George II. The popula…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZW_powells-valley_Middlesboro-KY.html
The names of the valley, river, and mountains that stretch out before you echo the names of long-hunters and explorers of the mid-18th century. Frontiersman Ambrose Powell came here with the Loyal Land Company expedition in April 1750.
Long-hu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZT_boundaries-settled_Middlesboro-KY.html
The exact spot where Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia met is not easy to see on the ridge line below. Nor was it easy to determine.
In 1665 Great Britain's King Charles II declared his Virginia colony was to be separated from his Carolina colo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZS_pinnacle-overlook_Middlesboro-KY.html
We started just as the sun began to gild the tops of the high mountains. We ascended Cumberland Mountain, from the top of which the bright luminary of the day appeared to our view in all his rising glory; the mists dispersed and the floating cloud…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZL_the-emigrants-dream_Middlesboro-KY.html
Cumberland Gap, the break in the ridgeline you see ahead, is far more than just a pass through a long, rugged mountain barrier. For a generation of American pioneers this was the gateway from their old lives and limitations out to a frontier wilde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZK_two-way-traffic_Middlesboro-KY.html
Two hundred years ago, pioneers poured through Cumberland Gap on their way west to a better life. But not all the traffic on the Wilderness Road was westbound. By the 1820s, drovers pushed huge herds of hogs and smaller herds of cattle and sheep e…