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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VAA_hands-that-built-historical_Bryson-City-TN.html
Nature forged the Great Smokies, but the hands of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) helped shape the national park we know today. During the 1930s, enrollment peaked as 4,300 men worked here, building roads, campgrounds, trails, and buildings.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM140D_land-of-diversity_Bryson-City-TN.html
Few places in North America sustain a greater variety of life than the Great Smoky Mountains. The forests, streams, and meadows here support more than 100 types of native trees, some 50 kinds of fish, some 1,500 flowering plants, more than 240 bir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7O_the-great-smokies_Bryson-City-TN.html
(Side One):The Great Smokies: scenic, diverse, culturally rich.The scenic view here are well known; lesser known is the abundance of life. The Smokies' rugged topography creates a diversity of species found in few other places in North America. An…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7M_the-appalachian-trail_Bryson-City-TN.html
You are standing alongside the Appalachian Trail, one of the longest continuous footpaths in the world. The trail winds more than 2,150 miles through 14 states. Few stretches are more remote or difficult than the section through the Great Smokies.…
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United Nations Educational Scientificand Cultural OrganizationMABProgram on Man and the BiosphereBy Decision of the Bureau of the internationalcoordinating council of the program on manand the biosphere, duly authorizedto that effect by the counci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7H_land-of-blue-smoke_Bryson-City-TN.html
Shaconage, the Cherokee name for this area, means "land of blue smoke." A smoke-like natural bluish haze, and mist-like clouds that rise following a rainstorm, provide the inspiration for the name Smoky Mountains. During the growing season, the Sm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7G_a-mountain-sanctuary_Bryson-City-TN.html
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a sanctuary. This is one of the few places in the eastern United States where animal populations can live, propagate, and die with relatively little influence from humans. Plants flourish in untold numbers an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7D_people-of-the-mountains_Bryson-City-TN.html
The rugged terrain of the Smoky Mountains determined patterns of human settlement. Residents of the Smokies - be they native Cherokees or European emigrants and their descendants - gravitated to valleys or coves. Settlement was confined to areas f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KB_overmountain-men_Bryson-City-TN.html
Appalachian Trail, Yellow Mountain Gap. Yellow Mountain Gap is the junction of the Appalachian Trail and Historic Bright's Trace, route used by the "Overmountain Men" to cross the mountain enroute to the Revolutionary War battle at King's Mountain…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KA_rockefeller-memorial_Bryson-City-TN.html
For the permanent enjoyment of the people. This park was given one-half by the peoples and states of North Carolina and Tennessee and by the United States of America, and one-half in memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller by the Laura Spelman Rockefe…