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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCZP_sequoyah_Cherokee-NC.html
This statue honoring Sequoyah. The Cherokee genius who invented the Cherokee Alphabet. was sculpted from a single great California Sequoia (Redwood) Log which was donated and shipped by Georgia-Pacific.This is sculptor Peter wolf Toth's 63rd statu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8CL_cherokee-veterans-park_Cherokee-NC.html
This park is dedicated to all members of the eastern band of Cherokee Indianswho served honorably in the Armed Forcesof this Great Nation, and especially tothose who died in the effort and toCharles George, the only member of theEastern Band of Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM89W_blacksmith-shop_Cherokee-NC.html
This shop was used by the farmer to make repairs to tools or to forge his own ironwork. Iron could be scarce, so a worn-out horseshoe might become part of a door hinge, as you can see here.
This blacksmith shop was brought here from Cades Cove,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM89T_corn-cribs_Cherokee-NC.html
Corn cribs housed the family's most important crop. Corn fed humans and livestock. Families consumed it both fresh and as cornmeal cooked into dishes such as mush and cornbread.
After allowing corn to dry on the stalk, farmers stored it on the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM89S_sorghum-mill-and-furnace_Cherokee-NC.html
Sorghum cane, a corp grown on many mountainfarms, was used to produce sorghum molasses.The cane fed between the rollers of theanimal-powered cane mill, which squeezed outthe juice.The juice was then boiled over thefurnace until it turned into thic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM889_apple-house_Cherokee-NC.html
For the mountain family, apples were a staple-eaten raw and used to make cider, vinegar, apple sauce, apple butter, and pies. Storing them was important, as evidenced by this substantial apple house. Summer apples were stored on the upper floor; h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM888_the-meathouse_Cherokee-NC.html
This building protected one of the most valuable commodities on a mountain farm: the meat supply. The most common meat was pork. Without refrigeration, salting and smoking were the most common means of preserving meat and protecting it from insect…