Excerpt from 1941 Yearbook: Park and Recreation Progress

The historical and highly scenic Cumberland Gap area in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia was authorized by the act of june 11, 1940, as the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park project. The act provides that the maxi mum area shall not exceed acres, and that no Federal money shall be appropriated for the purchase of the lands. The Cumberland Gap is of prime historical importance as the connecting link between the Middle Atlantic States and the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains. Long before the coming of the white man, the trail through the Gap, the Warrior's Path, was one of the principal Indian routes. Along this trail, which later became known as the Wilderness Road, Daniel Boone laid out the route which was used by the pioneers migrating westward. Subsequently, the pass became a great national gateway through which flowed the travel and transporta tion of a rapidly developing nation. Still later, during the War between the States, the area because of its strategic importance, was the object of several struggles between Federal and Confederate forces.

An organization known as the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Association, composed Of representatives of the three States in which the proposed national historical park is located, has been formed to assist in the acquisition of the necessary lands. The legislature of Virginia has appropriated to assist in the acquisition of the lands within that State.

Among the more important adjustments made during the last year in the boundaries Of existing areas were those of the Olympic National Park, Washington, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument, Colorado, the Grand Canyon National Monument, Arizona, and the Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina.

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