Group on Bryson City golf course

Group on Bryson City golf course

Golf courses

Mountains

Portraits, Group

Recreation

A group of golfers pose at the Bryson City golf course, standing near the number seven green, which was previously the number nine green. The man on the left is Talmadge Lee "Belk" Jones, who managed the Belks store in Bryson City when it opened in 1940. This photograph was taken by “Doc” Kelly Bennett (1890-1974), a prominent pharmacist in Swain County, NC. Owner of the Bryson City Drug Company, Bennett served as alderman and mayor of Bryson City, on the Swain County Board of Education, as well as several terms as NC State Senator and NC State Representative. He participated in numerous other initiatives and organizations. Known as the “Apostle of the Smokies,” Bennett was an instrumental figure in the movement to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He was also an avid photographer, skillfully documenting a wide variety of people, places, and events in Swain County and the surrounding area.

Bennett, Kelly, 1890-1974

Kelly Bennett Collection

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

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2021-05-20

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Swain County (N.C.)

Bryson City (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

3.5" x 5.75"(dimension)

Picturing Appalachia