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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.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD7J_great-smoky-mountains-national-park_Bryson-City-TN.html
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/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/HM887_horace-kepharts-last-permanent-camp_Bryson-City-NC.html
On this spot Horace Kephart - Dean of American Campersand one of the Principal Founders of theGreat Smoky Mountains National Park - pitched his last permanent camp.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM87B_kituwah_Bryson-City-NC.html
Cherokee mother town. Council house stood on mound here. Town was destroyed in 1776 by Rutherford expedition.