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Cumberland is a home rule-class city [4] in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population according to the 2010 Census was 2,237, [ 5 ] down from 2,611 at the 2000 census. The city sits at the confluence of Looney Creek and the Poor Fork Cumberland River .
Cumberland County is a county located in the Pennyroyal Plateau region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,888. [1] Its county seat is Burkesville. [2] The county was formed in 1798 and named for the Cumberland River, which in turn may have been named after the Duke of Cumberland [3] or the English county ...
Location of Cumberland County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cumberland County, Kentucky.. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Kentucky, United States.
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
The Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at the border between Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, centered on the Cumberland Gap, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains. The park lies in parts of Bell and Harlan counties in Kentucky, Claiborne County in Tennessee, and Lee County in
Map of Kentucky (Cumberland County in red) The Coe Ridge Colony was founded by Ezekiel (who went by Zeke on occasion) and Patsy Ann Coe in 1866. [1] After the January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in secessionist Confederate states, and the December 1865 ratification of the 13th Amendment, [2] [3] many ex-slaves struggled to find ways to support themselves and their families.
The Cumberland Central Business District is a commercial historic district in downtown Cumberland, Kentucky.While Cumberland was first settled in the 1820s, the district was developed during the area's coal mining boom of the 1910s and 1920s, which came after the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built lines through the region.
A postal road was opened in 1792 from Bean Station, Tennessee through Cumberland Gap to Danville, Kentucky. This was due largely to the efforts of Governor Isaac Shelby of Kentucky. This connection of Kentucky to the East was a great advantage.