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geographical name(Cum-ber-land)river 687 miles (1106 kilometers) long in southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee flowing west into the Ohio River
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geographical name(Cum-ber-land)city on the Potomac River in northwestern Maryland population 20,859
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geographical name(Cum-ber-land)town in northeastern Rhode Island in an area that was originally part of Massachusetts population 33,506
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geographical name(Cum-ber-land)caverns in central Tennessee southeast of McMinnville
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geographical name(Cum-ber-land)falls in the upper course of the Cumberland River, southeastern Kentucky
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geographical name(Cum-ber-land)mountain pass 1640 feet (500 meters) and early emigrant route through a ridge of the Cumberland Plateau in northeastern Tennessee southeast of Middlesboro, Kentucky
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geographical name(Cum-ber-land)tableland of eastern U.S., part of the southern Appalachian Mountains west of the Tennessee River extending from southern West Virginia to northeastern Alabama
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geographical name(Cum-ber-land)the first federal road in the United States, which was begun in 1811 at Cumberland, Maryland, opened as far as Wheeling (at the time, part of Virginia) in 1818, and eventually extended to Saint Louis, Missouri