Post by L Roebuck on Apr 14, 2006 10:53:19 GMT -5
" So far as has been found, historians have said that Doctor Walker gave the name Cumberland to the range now known as Cumberland Mountains, and the pass through this range which we know as Cumberland Gap. But Doctor Walker did nothing of the kind. When he and his companions arrived at the gap on the 13th it must already have had a name -Cave Gap- and this name Doctor Walker used for the pass. Later, in his Journal he calls it Cave Gap. He found it Cave Gap and left it Cave Gap. The Cumberland Mountains Doctor walker named Steep Ridge. There is no mistaking Doctor Walker's language, nor his intension in bestowing this name "Steep Ridge." It was the Cumberland Range which he so named. For he put down in his Journal a good description of the Cumberlands, and gave the range its name from the steep character of its north side-"The Mountain on the North Side of the Gap is very Steep and Rocky," he said. "
Source: History of Kentucky, 1922, Vol 1
Source: History of Kentucky, 1922, Vol 1