Cumberland Gap, TN

Cumberland Gap is a town in Claiborne County, Tennessee, United States. The 2020 census counted 313 residents. The town is located below the Cumberland Gap, a historic mountain pass for which is the town's namesake, and inside of the boundaries of Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The majority of the town's downtown area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Cumberland Gap Historic District. Food preparation and service-related jobs have become the fastest growing within Cumberland Gap. Lincoln Memorial University is located in nearby Harrogate.

The short version is that Cumberland Gap carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Cumberland Gap: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The Cherokee and Shawnee Native American tribes traveled through a game trail known to the Shawnee as Athiamiowee. The tribes often fought each other and white settlers called the trail The Warriors' Path. Cumberland Gap includes a historic district.