Auto trip not practical in N. C. area of Smoky National Park

Auto trip not practical in N. C. area of Smoky National Park

Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) -- Description and travel

Historical markers

Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931

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

Construction projects

Transportation

Travel

This short article details a trip made together by Horace Kephart and George Masa as they tried to go up and through Newfound Gap. In the mid-1920s, before the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established, North Carolina and Tennessee agreed to build a road through center of the proposed park. The article reports that the pair found an old state line marker. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photographer George Masa (1885-1933) was active in the Carolina Appalachian Trail Club, which merged with the Carolina Mountain Club, and in the movement to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Horace Kephart Collection

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

Asheville Times

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clippings (information artifacts)

eng

Text

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https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/25957

2016-03-02

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Haywood County (N.C.)

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

North Carolina

10.5" x 8"(dimension)

2 pages(pages)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America