Park dedication: correspondence

Park dedication: correspondence

Automobile parking

Eakin, J. Ross, 1879-1946

Promotional materials

Stupka, Arthur

Stupka, Grace G.

This letter provides instructions to deal with parking during the dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The dedication took place on Labor Day, September 2, 1940. A crowd of 10,000 came to Newfound Gap to hear President Franklin D. Roosevelt speak. Five hundred members of the Civilian Conservation Corps were on hand to direct and manage the crowd. A podium was set up on the North Carolina and Tennessee state lines, so that speakers stood with one foot in each state. The event was presided over by the Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes.

Eakin, J. Ross, 1879-1946

Park Management Records

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

1940-08-28

United States. National Park Service

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