Cataloochee Aboriginal Trail

Cataloochee Aboriginal Trail

Cataloochee (N.C.)

Reports

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

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

This 31-page manuscript, titled “Cataloochee Aboriginal trail and its use and development by white people” was written by Hiram Wilburn. As an unofficial historian of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Wilburn spent time identifying historic structures, collecting artifacts, and researching local history. A native of South Carolina and graduate of Clemson College, Hiram Coleman Wilburn (1880-1967) worked as a land surveyor for the North Carolina Park Commission before his employment with the Civilian Conservation Corps as a trail foreman. When the CCC dissolved in 1942, Wilburn’s official work with the park ended. He maintained a home in Waynesville and became the unofficial historian for the North Carolina side of the park. Wilburn is credited with curating the earliest collections that would form the nucleus of the park’s museum.

Wilburn, Hiram Coleman, 1880-1967

Cataloochee History Project

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

1940-01-10

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

pdf;

manuscripts (documents)

eng

Text

25851

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/25851

2015-09-22

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Haywood County (N.C.)

11' x 8.5"(dimension)

31 pages(pages)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America