The new Cumberland Gap National Historical Park quarter, 32nd issue of the series and the second design for 2016, is soon to be in circulation. On April 11, 2016, the official launch ceremony for the new Cumberland Gap quarter will take place in the park’s Visitor Center, which is located in Middlesboro, Kentucky. After the […]
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2016 Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Quarter to be released at Park’s Visitor Center
March 28, 2016 – 7:31 am
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Quarter design finalized
March 7, 2016 – 2:58 pm
On July 22, 2015, the U.S. Mint announced the final design for the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park quarters. The reverse shows a frontiersman looking to the west, along with the inscription first doorway to the west. The inscriptions on the coin’s reverse include the name of the site: cumberland gap, the location of the […]
Candidate designs for new 2016 Cumberland Gap National Historical Park quarters
February 24, 2016 – 10:23 am
In late 2014, both the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee and the Commission of Fine Arts reviewed several candidate designs for the reverse of the 2016 Cumberland Gap National Historic Park quarter. The CCAC was divided among three designs. The first showed an explorer, with the inscription first doorway to the west. Another featured an up-close […]
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park featured 32nd in National Park Quarter series
February 15, 2016 – 12:47 pm
In the early days of American history, a natural break in the Appalachian Mountains opened land west of that chain to settlers of present-day Kentucky. This began in 1775, when Daniel Boone blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap to create the Wilderness Road. It’s thought that between 1775-1810, an estimated 300,000 people crossed the […]
