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Cumberland Mountains

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Cumberland Plateau or Cumberland Mountains
The southwest section of the Appalachian Mountains, extending northeast to southwest from southern West Virginia through Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee into northern Alabama.
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Noun1.Cumberland MountainsCumberland Mountains - the southwestern part of the Appalachians
Cumberland Plateau
Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians - a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States
Cumberland Gap - a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west
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It all starts when Hannah's father decides to join the Yankees to fight, leaving behind his struggling family to fend for themselves on their little farm in the Cumberland mountains.
Ernst, Kathleen. Hearts of stone by Rosser, Claire / Kliatt
Highway 58 that crosses through Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountain country as it connects the Virginia Piedmont with the Cumberland Mountains.
A Guide to the Crooked Road by Internet Bookwatch
Save Our Cumberland Mountains, a thirty-year-old citizen's group, has submitted a petition to the Department of Interior, asking that the 66,000 acres in the park's watershed be declared "unsuitable for mining.
Citizens Fight Strip Mine by WINFREY, CHARLES / The Progressive
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