Cataloochee tract 261: A. C. Bennett

Cataloochee tract 261: A. C. Bennett

Abstracts of title

Acquisition of property

Buildings

Dwellings

Families

Farm buildings

Ginseng

Land titles -- Registration and transfer

Landowners

Log cabins

Portraits, Group

Real property

Reports

School children

Schools

Wooden fences -- North Carolina, Western

Wooden-frame houses

Barns

Cabins (Houses)

Government purchasing of real property

Springhouses

This 141-acre tract 261 in Cataloochee was owned by A. C. Bennett. While, in general, the Great Smoky Mountains region was sparsely populated, the Cataloochee Valley remained an exception. By 1900, the population of Cataloochee had grown to 1,000 residents living in hundreds of log and frame homes. A few historic buildings have been preserved on site, including two churches, a school, several homes, and outbuildings. The North Carolina Park Commission was tasked with purchasing land for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and people living in Cataloochee were among those displaced. Cataloochee families continue to return for annual reunions. In 2001, the National Park Service re-introduced elk into the valley.

Grossman, Charles S., 1900-1972

North Carolina Park Commission

Palmer, Arlo

Sloan, W. N.

Wilburn, Hiram Coleman, 1880-1967

Cataloochee History Project; Historic Photographs Collection;

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

1906; 1912; 1928; 1930; 1935; 1937; 2008-2009;

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

jpg; pdf;

clippings (information artifacts)

land surveys

manuscripts (documents)

photographs

portraits

maps (documents)

eng

StillImage

Text

22001

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/22001

2015-09-22

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Cataloochee (N.C.)

Haywood County (N.C.)

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

11" x 8.5"(dimension)

3" x 5.25"(dimension)

79 pages(pages)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America