PAINTING   1850s.       PHOTO

1925  as the old Cumberland Gap Hotel was npt built. is was finished in 1929. my RUSSELL family owned it.      PHOTO

TRAIN  1930s      PHOTO

TRAIN 1940s       PHOTO

TIPRELL DEPOT  1987. torn down that year.    PHOTO

DANIEL BOONE MARKER. 1930s.   my grandfather & sons mined sand a few 100 feet from this marker.      PHOTO

AIR VIEW of the PINNACLE.  1930s.     PHOTO

SOVENIR STAND in saddle of the GAP mountain. old 25E.
near my gramp's sand mine.                    PHOTO

PINNACLE  1966                                      PHOTO

LITTLE TUNNEL INN      08/87.this photo taken the day before it
was torn down.        PHOTO

LITTLE TUNNEL INN  the below was taken several days after it was torn down.       PHOTO
Notes on this INN it was started i think 1933 by the late SAM ROSE. if i'm wrong & someone knows other wise. please correct me.  for many years til his death  JOHNNY HOWARD ran it.
til it was torn down for the   new TUNNEL it was used various ways.
 

LOOKING EAST over CUMBERLAND GAP.     PHOTO

MIDDLESBORO.KY from 3 STATES.1970.      PHOTO

RAILROAD TUNNEL. completed 1897. photo 1970.    PHOTO

SNOWY 1986-87 winter        PHOTO

DRUG STORE, opened probly 1920s by HORTON FUSON. his
wife ran it til her death.their son now runs it.   PHOTO

ESTEPS GROCERY. built 1919. DALLARD ran it 65 years
til retired in 1985. Dallard has since passed away. i hope to put
a photo of him here soon. photo taken 1970.    PHOTO

ARTHER WHITAKER GARAGE. 1984       PHOTO

CUMBERLAND GAP  1986       PHIOTO

IRON FURNACE, Cannonballs & bullets made here during the CIVIL WAR.  photo taken 1985-86          PHOTO

CUMBERLAND GAP  1987       PHOTIO

CUMBERLAND GAP  1987       PHOTO

CUMBERLAND GAP from the PINNACLE over look     PHOTO

;LOVEDAY HOUSE as we called it. its said the oldest house in
CUMBERLAND GAP. built 1880-83? photo taken 1983. PHOTO

BILL MOSS HOUSE. now gone.photo taken 1987     PHOTO

a friend ROSS MOORE. this WALNUT  tree was planted by my grandmother about 1920. maytbe a little later. this is in front of their house, near the sand mine. photo taken 1984.  PHOTO

Chimney is near my brother's in GRAINGER Co.TN. was so neat i put it here.

I hope you enjpyed the photos if you have some of CUMBERLAND GAP, HAROGATE, ARTHUR, & MIDDLESBORO areas, care to share them for others to enjoy?  i'll give credit and state whether you want to keep copyrights.

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