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Cumberland Gap was long the gateway to the west. On April 13, 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker reached the gap and named it for the Duke of Cumberland, son of George II. A few years later Daniel Boone and numberless pioneers passed through it on the way to Kentucky. In August, 1863, a Union Army under General Ambrose E. Burnside captured Cumberland Gap.
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