I believe that all the gaps of the mountains of Bell and Harlan counties, were made by a large body of water that was damned at Pineville, KY. Pound Gap, Shell Gap, Pennington Gap, Cumberland Gap. These mountains were twice as tall as they are now,. We see rocks that have been worn down by running water, large boulders that have been on a shoreline being struck by waves. Digging in the earth one can see the strata has been ground by erosion. Slides from these large mountains have slid down on the shoulders of the larger mountains. Steep drop off ledges created by waves of these large bodies of water. In the 1930's, the U S. government wanted to build a dam at Pineville, KY. To generate electricity. But to flood this region would forever put a billion tons of coal under a hundred feet of water. Replicating the great lake of the past. The steady overfilling of this ancient lake created the several gaps and Cujo Caverns. Only when the Narrows at Pineville was eroded out did the water receed leaving some very fertile farm land and creating The Cumberland River. Water draining through the sand stone caused the sink hole at Middlesbourgh, KY.
Montclair, SoCal, USA is a city with a mall, the Montclair Mall, it's five miles square. I lived there for thirty years, close next door. Small town but Montclair is surrounded by nothing but other cities. Wall to wall cities, everywhere.
I believe that all the gaps of the mountains of Bell and Harlan counties, were made by a large body of water that was damned at Pineville, KY. Pound Gap, Shell Gap, Pennington Gap, Cumberland Gap. These mountains were twice as tall as they are now,. We see rocks that have been worn down by running water, large boulders that have been on a shoreline being struck by waves. Digging in the earth one can see the strata has been ground by erosion. Slides from these large mountains have slid down on the shoulders of the larger mountains. Steep drop off ledges created by waves of these large bodies of water. In the 1930's, the U
S. government wanted to build a dam at Pineville, KY. To generate electricity. But to flood this region would forever put a billion tons of coal under a hundred feet of water. Replicating the great lake of the past. The steady overfilling of this ancient lake created the several gaps and Cujo Caverns. Only when the Narrows at Pineville was eroded out did the water receed leaving some very fertile farm land and creating The Cumberland River. Water draining through the sand stone caused the sink hole at Middlesbourgh, KY.
Montclair, SoCal, USA is a city with a mall, the Montclair Mall, it's five miles square. I lived there for thirty years, close next door. Small town but Montclair is surrounded by nothing but other cities. Wall to wall cities, everywhere.
I wonder if they still have the old brewery there in Cumberland gap
Really need to work on the sound thanks for the post.
Also this is where my family Hill/Bennett started from Eastern Tennesse Scots-Irish from Ireland as indentured servants in Cumberland Gap.
Thanks