Cataloochee tract 200: Suncrest Lumber Company

Cataloochee tract 200: Suncrest Lumber Company

Abstracts of title

Acquisition of property

Land titles -- Registration and transfer

Landowners

Lumber trade

Maps

Real property

Reports

Government purchasing of real property

This 33,055-acre tract 200 in Cataloochee was owned by Suncrest Lumber Company. While many believe that the Great Smoky Mountains was made up of small family farms, in reality, 18 lumber companies together owned about 85 percent of the proposed park area. One of those was Suncrest, which timbered thousands of acres in Cataloochee and operated a mill in nearby Waynesville, North Carolina. After most logging operations ceased in the late 1920s, Suncrest continued, challenging the constitutionality of the North Carolina Park Commission’s acquisition of land. In 1929, Suncrest lost its case after appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court and its land subsequently purchased for the park.

North Carolina Park Commission

Sloan, W. N.

Cataloochee History Project

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

1928-09-24

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

pdf; jpg;

land surveys

maps (documents)

eng

Text

22876

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/22876

2015-09-22

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Haywood County (N.C.)

Swain County (N.C.)

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

North Carolina, Western

11" x 8.5"(dimension)

348 pages(pages)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America