Cataloochee tract 292: J. L. C. Messer

Cataloochee tract 292: J. L. C. Messer

Abstracts of title

Acquisition of property

Cemeteries

Families

Farm buildings

Gristmills

Land titles -- Registration and transfer

Landowners

Log cabins

Millstones

Real property

Reports

Wooden-frame houses

Barns

Cabins (Houses)

Government purchasing of real property

Smokehouses

Springhouses

This 50-acre tract 292 in Cataloochee was owned by J. L. Carson Messer. The Messer family barn, built around 1905, was originally located in Little Cataloochee. It was later moved to the ranger's residence, where it stands today. Messer's applehouse is now located at the Mountain Farm Museum in Oconaluftee. 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.

Flaugh, Dianne L.

Grossman, Charles S., 1900-1972

North Carolina Park Commission

Sloan, W. N.

Unknown

Wilburn, Hiram Coleman, 1880-1967

Cataloochee History Project; Historic Structures Reports; Historic Photographs Collection;

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

1928-1930; 1935; 1937; 2000; 1954;

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

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land surveys

photographs

publications (documents)

portraits

maps (documents)

eng

StillImage

Text

22048

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/22048

2015-09-22

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Cataloochee (N.C.)

Haywood County (N.C.)

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

North Carolina, Western

2" x 4" - 11.5" x 8.5"(dimension)

60 pages(pages)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America