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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM245S_mingus-mill_Bryson-City-NC.html
You didn't make it without corn....everyone ate cornmeal, sometimes two and three times a day. -George Moore, local resident
For 50 years, nearby farmers brought their corn and wheat to Mingus Mill, built in 1886. The miller usually charged a t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217M_fish-tales_Bryson-City-NC.html
Rainbow and brown trout, stonerollers, hogsuckers, sculpins, river chubs, and other fish live here in the lower reaches of the Oconaluftee River. But these are just a few of over 85 species found in the Smokies. The park's streams offer multiple m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM217L_cut-and-run_Bryson-City-NC.html
You hardly ever left a tree of any size standing and all the little 'uns was torn down.
Raymer Brackin
Standing her in 1910 you would have seen a far different landscape than today. You might have seen the Champion Fibre Company logging the m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20W2_western-view_Bryson-City-NC.html
Looking west you can track the course of the North Carolina-Tennessee boundary. Through most of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the state boundary also marks the course of the Appalachian Trail, which passes just below this tower. The trail l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20W0_southern-view_Bryson-City-NC.html
Notice the forest that surrounds the tower. This is a spruce (Picea rubens) and Fraser fir (Abies fraseri). It is a forest under stress. The dead trees you see are Fraser fir, victims of a European insect. Another threat, with far broader effects,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20VZ_eastern-view_Bryson-City-NC.html
On a clear day you can see Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the eastern United States, 73 miles (117km) away in North Carolina's Black Mountains. Can you see Mount Mitchell today? clear days can allow views that exceed 100 miles (161km). On oth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20VY_northern-view_Bryson-City-NC.html
People come to Clingmans Dome to experience the 360-degree view but how does the view today compare to centuries ago? We really don't know, but we do know that haze, largely caused by air pollution, can greatly diminish your view.
Records show …
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/HM1VA9_spared-the-saw-historical_Bryson-City-NC.html
Look out across the forested mountains of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The mountains are ancient, but much of the forest is young. Very little is old-growth, or ancient—never cut. But the time the park was established, as much as 80 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8E_ellen-black-winston-historical_Bryson-City-NC.html
Social worker. Led N.C. Board of Public Welfare, 1944-63; first Commissioner of U.S. Welfare. Her grave is 1/10 mi. W.