Pennington Gap was named for the Pennington family, which immigrated from North Carolina to Lee county around 1800. Edward Pennington (1769-1860) owned a farm on the North Fork of the Powell River, where Pennington Gap now is. His farm included a gap through Stone Mountain cut by Stone Creek. The gap was a passage through the Cumberland Mountains that was used, as was the more famous Cumberland Gap sixty miles to the southwest, by settlers travelling from the Valley of Virginia to Kentucky. The settlement became known as Pennington's, or Pennington's Gap, and was shortened through usage. Edward Pennington and his wife, Martha "Patsy" Flanary, daughter of John Flanary, and one of Edward and Martha's sons are buried in the Turner-Pennington Cemetery overlooking the Powell River on State 621 just east of US 421. -------------- Original message -------------- From: LeeHash@aol.com > How did Pennington Gap get it's name > Lee Hash > > > > **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VALEE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message