Bell
A Masterful Retreat
During the Civil War, Cumberland Gap was held alternately by Union and CSA armies.
Colonel Arthur Campbell
Middlesboro, KY
Grave of Colonel Arthur Campbell (1734-1811).
Cumberland Ford
Pineville, KY
One of the most important points on the Wilderness Road marked by Daniel Boone in 1775.
Henderson Settlement
Pineville, KY
Rev. Hiram M. Frakes founded this Methodist Settlement in 1925.
Invasion and Retreat
Pineville, KY
On route of Gen. E. Kirby Smith's Confederate invasion of Kentucky, fall 1862, concurrent with that of Bragg to the west.
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky - Cumberland Gap
Middlesborough, KY
Meriwether Lewis, coleader of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, with a party of Expedition veterans and a Mandan Indian delegation, went...
Middlesboro Golf Club
Middlesborough, KY
One of the oldest in US, founded 1889.
Middlesborough
Middlesborough, KY
English colony founded in 1886 by Alexander Arthur.
Mountain Vision
Middlesborough, KY
Alexander Arthur, 1846-1912, an outstanding figure in history of Middlesboro.
Naming of the Cumberland River
Pineville, KY
Near this site where the creek enters the river, on April 17, 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker first viewed the river he named for the Duke of...
Oldest House
Middlesborough, KY
Built about 1800 in Yellow Creek Valley, the second brick house in the county, and the oldest one still standing.
The Wilderness Road
Pineville, KY
Opened Kentucky and the West to rapid settlement and major development.
Wallsend Mine
Pineville, KY
The first to begin operations in Bell County, starting in 1889, with 1500 acres of coal land.