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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VWR_the-american-black-bear-historical_Gatlinburg-TN.html
Between 400 and 600 black bears live in the park, and you could see one almost anywhere. Most bears stay in the backcountry where they feed on grass, leaves, and acorns, fruits, berries, rodents, and carrion. Only a few visit roadsides and develop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VA8_indian-gap-road-historical_Gatlinburg-TN.html
Traffic of all sorts once passed through here—Indians, explorers, Confederate soldiers, farmers with livestock herds, merchants, and families traveling for varied reasons. This is Indian Gap. The road trace that descends the hill in front of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J0W_great-smokey-mountain-park_Gatlinburg-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 Spellman Rockefeller by the
Laura Spellman …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D53_chimney-tops_Gatlinburg-TN.html
Can you imagine smoke wafting from the chimney-like formations on this ridge? Nearly vertical holes in the tops of these jutting rocks make them look like natural chimney flues, and mountain people named them so—Chimney Tops. The Cherokees c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C4Q_village-gate_Gatlinburg-TN.html
This archway is built from bricks made by the slaves of William Rober McCroskey in 1842. They are believed to be the oldest bricks in this area having been used in the first brick building erected in Sevier County. The slate roof came from the man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM173V_a-wonder-of-the-world_Gatlinburg-TN.html
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most pristine natural areas in the eastern United States. Breathtaking mountain scenery, rushing mountain streams, and mature hardwood forests that stretch to the horizon are protected for you and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM173T_gladys-trentham-russell_Gatlinburg-TN.html
Birthplace of Gladys Trentham Russell
Author of: Call me HillbillyIt happened in the SmokiesSmoky Mountain Family Album
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM140C_new-gap-new-road_Gatlinburg-TN.html
I do not . . . favor the scarring of a wonderful mountainside just so we can say we have a skyline drive. It sounds poetical, but it may be an atrocity.Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, 1935
It's not easy to travel through the mountains.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDG8_the-ephraim-bales-place_Gatlinburg-TN.html
It would be difficult to find a better place to imagine mountain life than this. Picture yourself growing up here as one of Ephraim and Minerva Bales' nine children. Look around. This was your world. Imagine yourself and 10 others living in this s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDG6_noah-bud-ogle-farm_Gatlinburg-TN.html
With axe, plow, and gun, the first settlers changed the mountains, cutting into forests that were centuries old.They called this place "Junglebrook" after the dense growths of rhododendron and magnolia that bordered the streams.Between 1883 and 19…