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The Pound Gap of Pine Mountain is on the Virginia/Kentucky border between Jenkins Kentucky and Pound Virginia. It served as a passage for early settlers to cross into Kentucky from Virginia. Today U.S. Route 23 passes through the gap.

US23_cut_at_Pound_Gap.jpg
location
Kentucky, Virginia, Letcher County Kentucky, Wise County Virginia, United States
name
Pound Gap
latitude
37.1548
longitude
-82.6327

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