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Crampton’s Gap also known as Crampton Gap is a wind gap on South Mountain in Maryland. The 928 feet (283 m) gap connects Burkittsville in the Middletown Valley to the east with Gapland and Rohrersville in the Pleasant Valley to the west.The gap is the location of Gathland State Park and was the site of the Battle of Crampton’s Gap on September 14 1862 during the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.