Turner's Gap is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north, while Lambs Knoll is immediately to the south.

The area was settled in early 1751 by the John and Christiana Fox family and their son Frederick, German immigrants from Hesse.

[3] Fox's gap was in use by Euromerican colonists for decades before anyone settled there on the slopes of the mountain or gave it a lasting name.

[6] The Daniel Wise family bought a portion of the property in 1858 for $46.96, clearing fields and building a log cabin.

General Samuel Garland, Jr. and about a half-mile south is a bronze sculpture on a granite stone base dedicated in 2003 to remember the North Carolina troops that held the line here.