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811: 835: 29: 188:. Boone referred to Pound Gap as "Sounding Gap". Circa 1800, some the first pioneer families of eastern Kentucky came to Kentucky through Pound Gap. In Letcher County today are hundreds of the descendants of these pioneers. It was seven families who first came here around 1798: the Adamses, the Webbs, the Caudills, the Crafts, the Hammonds, the Sturgills, and the Collinses. The Hoggs, Maggards, Wrights, Fraziers, Fieldses, Bates, Halls, Bentleys, and Hamptons followed closely after the first settlement. 819: 803: 827: 54: 252:, following an altercation on November 27. On the night of the lynching, a crowd estimated between 400 and 500 surrounded the Kentucky jail Woods was held in and demanded he be released to their custody. The crowd then transported Woods to a wooden structure located in Pound Gap adjacent to the recently constructed 256:
highway. At this time the mob, estimated at 1,500, oversaw the hanging of Woods, followed by the firing of over 500 shots at his body, according to a local reporter. Both Virginia and Kentucky authorities claimed they were not responsible for investigating the crime, and no one was prosecuted for the
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to Pound Gap to make travel to western Virginia more accessible. The route was widely used to drive livestock (horses, hogs and cattle) into Virginia and other southern markets and was shorter than other routes. The Mount Sterling - Pound Gap road was considered "the longest pre-Civil War state road"
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During the construction of the new section of US 23 in 1998, the "Pine Mountain Pound Gap Thrust Fault" was exposed. "The collision of the North American continent with Africa and Europe more than 275 million years ago formed the Appalachian Mountains and the thrust fault at Pound Gap". Geologists
226:, a local moonshiner and his family. The ambush killed five out of seven people who were in the caravan at a rock near Pound Gap now called "Killing Rock". It was reported August 18, 1892 in the Richmond Dispatch that the grave of Ira Mullins was desecrated by an explosion similar to dynamite. 219:)in the Battle of Pound Gap, forcing the 500 Confederate soldiers (under command of Major John Thompson) after the deadly battle to retreat. General Garfield was the youngest (Union) general of the war, and gained fame from the Battle of Pound Gap. 460:"NEGRO IS LYNCHED AS KENTUCKY KILLER; Alleged Slayer Is Taken From Jail Into Virginia and There Shot, Then Burned. VIRGINIANS ARE BLAMED Stand From Which New Interstate Highway Was Dedicated Is Used for Funeral Pyre" 273:
consider the exposed rock to be "one of the most remarkable exposures of rock in the entire eastern United States". On September 26, 1998, Pound Gap was declared Kentucky's first Distinguished Geologic Site by the
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The route roughly follows modern day KY 11 from Mount Sterling to Clay City, then KY 15 from Clay City to Whitesburg, and finally US 119 from Whitesburg, along the Kentucky River, to its headwaters in Pound Gap.
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In 1834, the General Assembly of Kentucky passed an act to improve the road (one of "Kentucky's Wilderness Traces") from
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used the gap to cross into Kentucky, along with Michael Stoner, to warn the land surveyors of a possible attack from the
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On May 14, 1892, Dr M.B. Taylor, also known as "The Red Fox", and two confederates, Henan and Cal Fleming, ambushed
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on October 27, 1893, for the murders. The Red Fox Trail & Killing Rock is now a hiking trail in the
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Leidholdt, Alexander (2011). ""never Thot This Could Happen in the South!" the".
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took control of the gap. On March 16, 1862, 800 Union soldiers from the
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The Oldest House in the Valley - Chapter 6 - Online edition
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Oldest House in the Valley - Chapter One - Online edition
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Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer. Retrieved on 2010-06-20
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Pass through Pine mountain ridge of the Appalachians
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Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves
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Road passing between two rock faces, the rocks are diagonally stratified and there is woodland atop the hill
Elevation
US 23
Letcher County
Kentucky
Wise County
Virginia
United States
Range
Cumberland Mountains
Coordinates
37°09′17″N 82°37′58″W / 37.1548257°N 82.6326561°W / 37.1548257; -82.6326561
Pine Mountain
Jenkins, Kentucky
Pound, Virginia
U.S. Route 23
Ohio Company
Christopher Gist
Daniel Boone
Shawnee Indians
Mount Sterling
Confederate States Army
Colonel John S. Williams
42nd Ohio Infantry
James A. Garfield
present day Pikeville
Ira Mullins

Wise County Courthouse
Jefferson National Forest

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