DANIEL BOONE COMING THROUGH CUMBERLAND GAP, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Cumberland Gap is of prime historical importance as a gateway between the Middle Atlantic States and the territory west of the Appalachians. To pre-Columbian Indians it was the "Warriors' Path"; and in Daniel Boone's day the Wilderness Road was marked out along this Indian Trail as the gateway to the trans-Allegheny West. Thousands of settlers passed through Cumberland Gap over this road, which came to symbolize the historic period of westward expansion. Its existence and use were largely responsible for opening up the old "Northwest Territory." All the lands necessary for the historical park were acquired by the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. (Painting by Geo. C. Bingham, on loan from Washington University.)

HARPERS FERRY NATIONAL MONUMENT, An artist's conception, pre-Civil War. Harpers Ferry, now practically a ghost town, is saturated with history. It experienced outstanding events in American history from Colonial days to the Civil War. George Washington selected it for a national armory because of its abundant waterpower. Through it raced the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to link the Ohio Valley with the East. John Brown's famous raid in 1859 dramatized the intense bitterness between the North and the South. In the Civil War it changed hands many times. The State of West Virginia has purchased all the lands on its side of the State boundary within the approved monument lines; and Maryland ns now at work acquiring the lands on its side. Note the old C & O Canal in right foreground, also being administered as Federal property—see opposite page. (Drawn by Weidenbach).