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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZFF_war-dead-of-swain-county_Bryson-City-NC.html
World War IBarker, William H.,Bates, Everett R.,Cathy, Charlie,Cochran, John T.,Franklin, Walter I.,Freeman, Caro N.,Kincaid, William,Leaiherwood, James L.,Mashburn, Earnest L.,Mason, William,Mathis, Fred,Moore, Grady,Queen, James R., Shuler, Finl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTG3_the-top-of-the-smokies_Bryson-City-NC.html
At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest mountain in Great Smokey Mountains National Park and is one of the highest peaks in the eastern United States.
An observation tower at the summit takes you above the treetops for a panoramic view. Cl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTG2_and-it-became-land_Bryson-City-NC.html
Look out across the Smoky Mountains landscape.How did this land come to be?
They carefully got all the mud and they laid it out on the rocks. And when it was dry enough, Grandfather threw it out into the water, and it became land. And the buzza…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTFZ_mountains-refuge-and-healing_Bryson-City-NC.html
Clingmans Dome is a sacred mountain to the Cherokees, where the Magic Lake was once seen. The Great Spirit told the Cherokees that, "if they love me, if they love all their brothers and sisters, and if they love the animals of the earth, when they…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTFY_mingus-mill_Bryson-City-NC.html
For over fifty years the mill you are approaching ground corn into meal and wheat into flour for the mountain community near Mingus Creek. In place of wooden water wheel, a small steel turbine provided power to run the mill's stones and machinery.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQJH_tsali_Bryson-City-NC.html
Cherokee who resisted removal & escaped from U.S. troops; executed nearby, 1838. Story inspired Unto These Hills.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPPQ_deep-creek_Bryson-City-NC.html
Site of Union attack on Thomas's Legion, Feb. 2, 1864.Reduced Cherokee support for Confederacy. One mile northeast.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7C_land-of-diversity_Bryson-City-NC.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 trees, 58 kinds of fish, some 1,500 flowering plants, more than 200 bird species, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD78_where-man-is-only-a-visitor_Bryson-City-NC.html
In front of you is a very special place - part of the park's "backcountry," a place without roads, wires, houses...
Here you - or your children, or theirs - may walk for days, largely free of the sights, sounds, and smells of the everyday world…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD72_fifty-years-of-mountain-logging_Bryson-City-NC.html
Commercial logging became widespread in the Smokies around 1880, about fifty years before the establishment of the national park. Loggers using hand tools an animal teams took maple, poplar, cherry, walnut, and other choice woods.
Mechanized lo…