Bean Station
We drove through Cumberland Gap and over Clinch Mountain in northeast Tennessee on our way to Smoky Mountain National Park. Clinch (TN) and Pine (KY) Mountains must have looked like such formidable obstacles to westward-bound adventurers and settlers. Now Cumberland Gap is easily traveled through a spacious tunnel, and the little town that marks its southern entry is a destination for a good meal at Webb’s Restaurant. Summertime brings Civil War reenactments, a reminder of the divided loyalties of mountaineers and the multiple exchanges of Union/Confederate power in the Cumberlands.
We drove through Cumberland Gap and over Clinch Mountain in northeast Tennessee on our way to Smoky Mountain National Park. Clinch (TN) and Pine (KY) Mountains must have looked like such formidable obstacles to westward-bound adventurers and settlers. Now Cumberland Gap is easily traveled through a spacious tunnel, and the little town that marks its southern entry is a destination for a good meal at Webb’s Restaurant. Summertime brings Civil War reenactments, a reminder of the divided loyalties of mountaineers and the multiple exchanges of Union/Confederate power in the Cumberlands.
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