Abstract

Progress Reached Our Valley

This article discusses about the progress that came over the years in Cumberland, Kentucky. Surrounded by green, waits of hillside woodlands, cut by the creek, bordered by the river, the land was cheap, beautiful and remote. U S. 27 was only 10 miles away, but after 2 miles or so of graveled road to the Cumberland National Forest fire tower, the way was dirt and rock that worsened as it left the ridge to wind down the creek valley, crossing at last as our place was reached. Some years ago, when the place was on its way down, the hillside fields, heretofore pasture, had been put in corn. The slope was too great for row crops; erosion had begun and grown worse with the years, until the steeper faces were gullied through the red clay down to the rocky bones of the hill.