Correspondence regarding the naming of Mount Kephart, February 16, 1929

Correspondence regarding the naming of Mount Kephart, February 16, 1929

Barnes, Will C. (Will Croft), 1858-1936

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

Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931

Mountains

Names, Geographical

Horace Kephart writes his family on February 16, 1929 sending them a copy of a letter from Will C. Barnes, Secretary for the United States Geographic Board, regarding the decision to name a mountain in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains, Mount Kephart. The rare decision to name a geographic feature after a living person was made on October 3, 1928.

Barnes, Will C. (Will Croft), 1858-1936

Kephart, Horace, 1862-1931

Horace Kephart and Laura Mack Kephart Family Collection

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

1929-02-16

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Mount Kephart (Tenn.)

Swain County (N.C.)

Sevier County (Tenn.)

Washington (D.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Tennessee

11" x 8.5"(dimension)

2 pages(pages)

Horace Kephart