Cataloochee tract 231: W. G. B. Messer

Cataloochee tract 231: W. G. B. Messer

Abstracts of title

Acquisition of property

Barns

Boys

Buildings

Children

Couples

Dwellings

Families

Land titles -- Registration and transfer

Landowners

Men

Portraits, Group

Real property

Reports

Government purchasing of real property

School buildings

Smokehouses

The 343 acres in tracts 231, 231a, 231b, and 231c were owned by W.G.B. Messer. 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.

Carroll, Roy

Childress, Berdine

Exline, Edouard E., 1905-1960

Flaugh, Dianne L.

Grossman, Charles S., 1900-1972

McGlasson, Linda

North Carolina Park Commission

Palmer, Arlo

Sloan, W. N.

Thornborough, Laura

Trout, Ed

Unknown

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

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

1875; 1925; 1928-1929; 1932; 1935; 1937; 1975; 1977; 2000; 2009;

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

jpg; pdf;

clippings (information artifacts)

land surveys

letters (correspondence)

manuscripts (documents)

photographs

publications (documents)

portraits

group portraits

maps (documents)

eng

StillImage

Text

23127

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/23127

2015-09-22

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Haywood County (N.C.)

Cataloochee (N.C.)

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

North Carolina, Western

11" x 8.5"(dimension)

226 pages(pages)

3" x 5.25"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America