Cataloochee tract 219: Milia Palmer

Cataloochee tract 219: Milia Palmer

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Swine -- Housing -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

Women

Wooden fences -- North Carolina, Western

Wooden-frame houses

Government purchasing of real property

This 145.5-acre tract 219 in Cataloochee was owned by Milia Palmer. Palmer Methodist Church Cemetery lies on this tract. Milia Palmer was the wife of Sheriff William A. Palmer. 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.

Exline, Edouard E., 1905-1960

Flaugh, Dianne L.

Grossman, Charles S., 1900-1972

Jennison, Harry Milliken, 1885-1940

North Carolina Park Commission

Sloan, W. N.

Wilburn, Hiram Coleman, 1880-1967

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

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

1880; 1918; 1928-1929; 1935-1937; 1940; 2000;

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2015-09-22

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Haywood County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

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

Cataloochee (N.C.)

102 pages(pages)

2" x 2" - 11" x 8.5"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America