Smokemont Store

Smokemont Store

Automobiles

General stores

Service stations

At Smokemont, 500 men worked at the Champion sawmill and pulpwood plant. Some 15 company towns and sawmills were constructed in the area that is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mountain people who had once farmed the area, now cut trees for a living, attracted to logging by the promise of security and steady income. Timber companies built logging towns to house hundreds of workers and their families. Among them were Crestmont on Big Creek, Ravensford on Raven Fork, Proctor on Hazel Creek, Townsend on the Little River, and Smokemont on the Oconaluftee River.

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Smoky Mountains Hiking Club Collection

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

1935

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26409

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2015-07-06

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Swain County (N.C.)

Smokemont (N.C.)

3.5" x 4.75"(dimension)

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