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Pennington Gap is a town in Lee County, Virginia, United States, at the junction of U.S. Route 58A and U.S. Route 421. See the town's history, geography, climate, and demographics on this Wikipedia page.
The Pennington Formation is a geologic formation named for Pennington Gap, Virginia. [1] It can be found in outcrops along Pine Mountain and Cumberland Mountain in Kentucky , Virginia , and Tennessee , where it is the uppermost Mississippian -age formation. [ 1 ]
Lee County is the westernmost county in Virginia, named for Light Horse Harry Lee. It has a history of tobacco and coal production, and is part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.
Big Stone Gap, Virginia; Olinger Gap north of Low Gap near Old Still Hollow; Low Gap east of Scott Gap; Scott Gap east of Dalton Gap; Dalton Gap north of Pennington Gap; Pennington Gap on U.S. Route 421 near Pennington Gap, Virginia; Low Gap near Mullins Ridge south of U.S. Route 58 in Virginia; Hunter Gap on Virginia Route 70
The Pennington Gap Miners were minor league baseball team based in Pennington Gap, Virginia. Between 1937 and 1951, Pennington Gap teams played as members of the Class D level Appalachian League from 1937 to 1940 and Mountain States League from 1948 to 1951, winning the 1937 league championship. The team was initially called the "Bears."
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
SR 10 left Virginia into Kentucky at Cumberland Gap; the piece of current US 58 into Tennessee was (in general terms) State Route 107 from 1923 to 1928 and State Route 100 from 1928 to 1933 (as well as U.S. Route 25E from 1926 to 1996). SR 10 used present U.S. Route 58 Alternate from Jonesville to Pennington Gap and U.S. 421 southeast back to U ...
The majority of US 421 in Virginia, from Pennington Gap east to Bristol, was designated as part of State Route 10 in 1918; the rest was not a state highway until the late 1920s. The east (south) three miles (5 km) were added as State Route 104 in 1928, taking it to the present State Route 352 junction at Stone Creek ; St. Charles (accessed via ...