Hotel sign at the Inn on Ogle Meadow Knob

Hotel sign at the Inn on Ogle Meadow Knob

Hotels

Signs and signboards -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)

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 during a ten-day trip in 1920 to explore the Black Mountains. Present were lifelong friends Walter S. Diehl and Paul M. Fink. On the back of this photograph Fink wrote: On Ogle Meadow Knob there is a little hotel and there we found this sign, which amused us so greatly that we were forced to take the picture. "No one is allowed in the kitchen without permission. No Sitting or Wallowing on the beds in the Daytime."

Paul Fink Collection

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

1920-06-15;

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30226

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/30226

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

2017-09-01

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Yancey County (N.C.)

Ogle Meadows (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

3.5" x 2.5"(dimension)

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America