In the fall of 1925, the Asheville Chamber of Commerce sponsored a “Goodwill Motorcade” to “inaugurate a general campaign of advertising for North Carolina.” The almost weeklong auto tour began in Asheville, making a loop along what is now interstate…
The Appalachian National Park Association was formed in 1899 for the purpose of promoting the idea of a national park in the eastern U.S. One of the highlights of the group’s activities was convention held on October 25, 1902. Two weeks prior to the…
The full title for this Asheville Citizen article is “Delegations to Be Here Today From Various Cities to Start The Drive For National Park: Senator Mark Squires Will Preside at Today’s Meeting.” By 1925, the Appalachian National Park Association had…
This 123-acre tract 214 in Cataloochee was owned by Eldredge Caldwell. The Caldwell House in Big Cataloochee is among the few preserved structures that remain today. The house was built between 1898 and 1903 by Hiram Caldwell. The Caldwell Barn,…
This short Associated Press news article, “Park Museum Gets Kephart Collection,” reveals the disposition of the part of the Horace Kephart estate. A prolific writer, Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author…
Zebulon Weaver (1872-1948) was a lawyer and U.S. Representative from western North Carolina. He was a member of the North Carolina Park Commission and was involved in the land acquisition process that went towards establishment of the Great Smoky…
Created around 1934, this unsigned manuscript titled, “The Appalachian Trail in the Unaka and the Pisgah National Forests,” is most likely by Myron Haliburton Avery (1899–1952), who was president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and chairman of…
This 27-page manuscript recounts the involvement of Arnold Guyot in the Great Smoky Mountains. A geologist and geographer, Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884), began his exploration of the Appalachians in 1849. His purpose was to record the elevations of…
This undated manuscript titled, “The Unaka and the Pisgah,” is by Myron Haliburton Avery (1899–1952), who was president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and chairman of the board of the Appalachian Trail Conference. The paper discusses the Unaka…
This undated manuscript titled, “Source material for a study of the Great Smokies,” is by Robert Lindsay Mason (1874-) and Myron Haliburton Avery (1899–1952), president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club and chairman of the board of the…