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The project includes replacing underground lighting in the Cochrane Tunnel in Jefferson County and the Cumberland Gap Tunnel in Bell County.

There’s an ballad about the Cumberland Gap that’s been sung in white communities forever.

Wilderness Road State Park is a 310-acre state park that educates and celebrates the westward expansion path through the Cumberland Gap known as Wilderness Road.

When Daniel Boone wandered through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky in the late 1700s, the state was filled with wildlife.

“I didn’t realize what they’d do to you until it was too late,” Craig said in an interview from his home in rural Pathfork, Ky., an Appalachian Mountain town near the Cumberland Gap.