Forest Shadows is the story of a people seeking to build a nation from a wild frontier fraught with dangers both personal and political. In the center of this storm is a man with a past that haunts him and a future that sometimes seems out of reach. Jacob Smith, Captain Joseph Martin, and Sergeant Mordecai Hoard, as well as others who travel the Wilderness Road seeking a better tomorrow, are willing to risk it all for the future of their families and the future of a soon-to-be great nation. In the deep woods of the frontier border, a man faces many dangers and perils; it is truly a "dark and bloody ground."
An Act of June 11, 1940, Public Law 76-586, to Provide for the Establishment of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of CongressFile Unit: Laws of the United States, 1940, 76th Congress, 3d Session, Part 2, Public Laws 526-640
H.R. 9394 [PUBLIC — NO. [handwritten] 586]
[CHAPTER [handwritten] 304]
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THE WHITE HOUSE [ TOP LINE ILLEGIBLE]
MAY 31, 1940 SUPERVISION AND MANAGEMENT
RECEIVED JUN 12 1940
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
RECEIVED
Seventy-sixth Congress of the United States of America;
At the Third Session
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third
day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty
AND ACT
To provide for the establishment of the Cumberland Gap National
Historical Park in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America and Congress assembled, Then when title to
all the lands, structures, and other property in the Cumberland Gap-
Cumberland Ford areas, being portions of the Warriors Path of the
Indians and Wilderness Road of Daniel Boone, within Bell and
Harlan Counties, Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia; and Claiborne
County, Tennessee; as may be determined by the Secretary of the
Interior as necessary or desirable for national historical market purposes,
shall have been vested in the United States such area or areas shall
be, as they are hereby, established, dedicated, and set apart as a
public park for the benefit and inspiration of the people and shall
be known as the " Cumberland Gap National Historical Park": Pro-
vided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation
of public monies any lands within the aforesaid areas: Provided
further, That such area or areas shall include, at least, the following
features and intervening lands: Cumberland Gap, The Pinnacle, the
remaining fortifications of the War between the States, Soldiers Cave,
King Solomon's Cave, Devils Garden, Sand Cave, The Doublings,
White Rocks, Rocky Base, Moore Knob, and that portion of the
Warriors Path and Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road extending from
the city of Cumberland, Tennessee, to Cumberland Ford, near
Pineville, Kentucky.
SEC. 2. The total area of the Cumberland Gap National Historical
Park, as, as determined pursuant to this Act, shall not exceed fifty
thousand acres, and shall not include any land within the city limits
of Middleborough and Pineville, Kentucky; Cumberland Gap, Ten-
nessee; nor any lands adjacent thereto which the proper officials
thereof shall indicate to the Secretary of the Interior prior to the
establishment of said Park are required for expansion of said cities.
SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby
authorized to accept donations of land, interest in land, buildings,
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structures, and other property within the boundaries of the said
historical Park as determined and fixed hereunder, and donations of
funds for the purchase and maintenance thereof: Provided, That he
may acquire on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds,
by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation
under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, such tracts of
land within said historical Park as may be necessary for the comple-
tion thereof. The title to any lands or interest in lands to be acquired
pursuant to this Act shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the
Interior.
SEC. 4. The administration, protection, and development of the
aforesaid national historical park shall be exercised under the direc-
tion of the Secretary of the cafeteria by the National Park Service,
subject to the provision of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535),
entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other
"Mountain Boy." Jimmy Powell photographed in or near Cumberland Gap, Tennessee by Joe Clark for Life Magazine, 1955. Clark Family Photography Collection, UNT Libraries Special Collections.
