Roan High Knob and Cloudland Hotel

Roan High Knob and Cloudland Hotel

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Roan Mountain (N.C. and Tenn.)

Photograph of a grassy bald. Paul M. Fink (1892-1980) of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was an early advocate for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This collection of photographs from 1914 through the 1930s was taken while Fink thoroughly explored the Great Smoky Mountains and surrounding area. A banker and a conservationist, Fink kept a journal of his explorations and published his entries in Backpacking Was the Only Way (1975). This photograph was taken on June 23, 1918 during a five-day exploratory trip to Clark Creek, Rich Mountain, and Roan Mountain. Present were Henry W. Patton and Paul M. Fink. On the back of this photograph Fink wrote: Now in ruins. The Roan is one of the prettiest balds I have ever seen and would be an ideal spot for one to spend a week in the "dolce far niente" of which Nessmuck speaks.

Paul Fink Collection

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

1918-06-23;

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30223

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https://wncln.wncln.org/record=b1264458~S4

2017-09-01

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Mitchell County (N.C.)

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

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America