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Be an outsider with L.L. Beam. Everyone knows America's legendary origins, 13 colonies fighting off the tyranny of the British Empire to form

our union. But did you know there was, if only for a brief time, an extra legal 14th colony.

Actually there were a few other

actually there were a few other colonies like Nova Scotia and

East and West Florida that didn't join the revolution and remained loyal to the

crown but I'm talking about something different.

This is a colony that was created by a private company that lobbied the Continental Congress to join the union that would become the United States.

If that blows your mind... that would become the United States.

If that blows your mind, you'll be even more astounded to find out its name.

It was called Transylvania.

Yeah, I didn't hear about that in school either. In fact, had events turned a bit differently, we could be eating Transylvania fried chicken instead of KFC,

and horses might be running the Transylvania Derby. It was made possible by a famous name too.

A man called Daniel Boone.

On this episode of America's National Parks,

The Transylvania Purchase,

a land which laid its gateway at a gap in the Allegheny Mountains,

now known as Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, where the borders of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee meet.

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