Davenport Gap

… a wind gap in Great Smoky Mountains where the North Carolina-Tennessee boundary crosses the NE boundary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Haywood County, N.C., and Cocke County, Tenn., near lat. 35°46'30" N., long. 83°6'30" W. Named in honor of Col. William Davenport, who in 1821 marked a stone on the "north side of Cataloochee Turnpike Road" as the starting point of his survey of the Tennessee-North Carolina state line.