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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZG_bryans-station_Lexington-KY.html
Camping place in 1775-76 of the brothers Morgan, James, William and Joseph Bryan. In 1779 was fortified as a station which in Aug. 1782 repelled a siege of Indians and Canadians under Capt. William Caldwell and Simon Girty.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZ4_gateway-to-kaintuck_Middlesboro-KY.html
For travelers who had to walk, the Appalachian mountains seemed like an impenetrable wall, 600 miles long and 150 miles wide. Here at Cumberland Gap you could find both a good way in and a good way out of that rugged labyrinth of ridges, coves, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZ2_russell-s-dyche-memorial-highway_Somerset-KY.html
This section of KY 80 was named to honor the memory of a man whose vision foresaw the role it would play in someday - a link in a chain of great highways stretching across the breath of the Commonwealth from the hills of Appalachia to the lakes an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZ0_mountain-gateway_Pineville-KY.html
Bell County, named for Joshua Fry Bell (1811-1870), was formed just after the Civil War in February of 1867 from portions of Harlan and Knox Counties. Pineville, the county seat, being so near the site where pioneers on the Wilderness Road crossed…