Paint Rock

Paint Rock

Rock paintings -- North Carolina

This photograph depicts a rock outcropping known as Paint Rock named for the fact that figures on this rock cliff appeared to early settlers to be paintings. The back of the photograph is labeled "Country Life in America" which was an illustrated magazine published from 1901-1942 targeting readers interested in suburban living. The photograph is now part of a collection documenting the activities of the Appalachian National Park Association. The Association, founded in 1899, played a key role in the movement for the establishment of a national park in the Southern Appalachians. George S. Powell was the Association’s first president and Asheville physician Dr. Chase P. Ambler (1865-1932) was the secretary. Ambler deposited this collection in 1929 to the State Archives of North Carolina at Raleigh from where they were moved in 2012 to the Western Regional Archives located in Asheville.

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Appalachian National Park Association Records

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

Appalachian National Park Association

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19628

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/19628

2013-10-02

Reproduced with permission of North Carolina Western Regional Archives;

Madison County (N.C.)

8" x 5"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America