Bell County, Kentucky A Brief History

Early pioneers like Thomas Walker and Daniel Boone endured untamed wilderness to open the Bluegrass for civilizations to follow. Lifelong Bell County resident Cornett presents the history of his homeland, site of Cumberland Gap’s Gateway to the West, from its first known inhabitants through the twentieth century, drawing on letters, memoirs and personal interviews.

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Daniel Boone explored the regions west of the Appalachians in the what is now Kentucky but was part then part of Virginia in the period around the American Revolution. The Cumberland Gap was pioneered by Daniel Boone and provided passage from the original colonies to America's next frontier west of the Appalachians.

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