The Cumberland Gap Tunnel is 4,600-foot vehicular tunnel that carries U.S. Route 25E under Cumberland Gap National Historical Park near the intersection of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The eastern entrance to the tunnel is located in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee and the western exit is located in Middlesboro, Kentucky. The Cumberland Gap Tunnel is one of only two mountain vehicular tunnels in the United States that cross a state line, the other being the East River Mountain Tunnel on Interstate 77 between Virginia and West Virginia. |
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kentucky. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
CUMBERLAND GAP TUNNEL
Saturday, December 21, 2019
MIDDLESBORO, KENTUCKY
Middlesboro, Kentucky is the only city in the United States built entirely inside a meteorite crater. Middlesboro is located in Bell County in southeastern Kentucky. The population was 10,434 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is located entirely between Pine Mountain and the Cumberland Mountains in the Middlesboro Basin, an enormous meteorite crater. The crater is approximately 3-mile-wide and the impactor is estimated to have been about 100 meters in diameter. |
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View of Middlesboro from the Pinnacle Overlook
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Sunday, July 7, 2019
JEFFERSON DAVIS STATE HISTORIC SITE - FAIRVIEW, KENTUCKY
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The
Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site is a Kentucky state park commemorating
the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of
America. The site’s focal point is a 351-foot concrete obelisk.
The
obelisk is the tallest unreinforced concrete structure in the world. No steel
was used to reinforce the concrete walls below its pyramidal top. It is also
the tallest concrete obelisk in the world and the fifth tallest monument in
the United States.
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| Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview, Kentucky |
Friday, November 23, 2018
KENTUCKY BEND
The Kentucky Bend is an exclave of Fulton County,
Kentucky, encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri. It is a portion of
a peninsula defined by an oxbow loop meander of the Mississippi River, and its
inclusion in the state of Kentucky stems from uncertainties of the course of
the Mississippi River when the boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky was
established.
The only highway into the area is Tennessee State Route
22. It is impossible to get to the Kentucky Bend (even on foot or in a boat)
without going through either Missouri or Tennessee.
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