Saw Mill at Smokemont

Saw Mill at Smokemont

Champion Fibre Company

Sawmills

This photograph of the 'Saw Mill at Smokemont' is featured in the booklet 'Glimpses of the Plant of the Champion Fibre Co., Canton, North Carolina: Souvenir of the Visit of the Cincinnati Commercial Club, May 1922'. The logging community of Smokemont, near Cherokee, N.C., was part of the Champion Fibre Corporation's extensive land holdings and its operations in western North Carolina. To help provide the wood necessary to operate the company's paper and pulp plant at Canton, N.C., this sawmill in the early 1920s furnished 45,000 feet of lumber a day and an equal amount of pulp wood. In the early 1930s this area would become part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. By 1939 the Federal Writer's Project-produced book 'North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State' listed Smokemont as 'an abandoned lumber village' which was 'being converted into a tourist center'. The photographer's name is unknown.

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Corydon Bell Collection

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

1922

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