"Land of the Sky" and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Western North Carolina

Lake Junaluska, North Carolina

Great Smoky Mountains Publishing Company, Inc.

Asheville, NC           Knoxville, Tenn.

Copyright, 1929          Price $1.75

MIRROR LAKE, A GEM REFLECTING THE RARE BEAUTY OF BOTH LAND AND SKY

Western North Carolina
"The Land of the Sky"
   

ONE of Nature's most highly favored spots, Western North Carolina, many years ago recognized as an outstanding section for variety and beauty of natural scenery, because of the altitude of the entire region and the height of numerous peaks of both the Blue Ridge and the Great Smoky Mountains rising above the clouds there, was very properly named "The Land of the Sky."
 

Two ranges of the magnificent Appalachian chain of mountains present their most appealing charms in this section of the Old North State. The Great Smokies, towering in indescribable beauty, form the boundary line between North Carolina and Tennessee and seem to pose in friendly rivalry with the Blue Ridge, famed in song and story, in affording to Western North Carolina a variety of beautiful mountain scenery unequaled anywhere else in the world.
 

The Great Smokies, reaching their highest altitudes along the crest of the range at the Tennessee boundary line, continue to roll and spread in an easterly direction on the Carolina side, covered with virgin forest and hundreds of varieties of wild flowers, rising and falling in an unending panorama of peak, plateau, ridge and valley, where streams and lakes and enchanting views have attracted visitors from all over the world.
 

The Blue Ridge traverses "The Land of the Sky" with some of the most noted of its world-renowned scenery, presenting such points of world-wide interest as Chimney Rock, Blowing Rock and the Royal Gorge. Mount Mitchell with an altitude of 6,711 feet above the sea, the

RUGGED SCENERY SEEMS NEVER TO END IN THIS REGION OF WONDERLAND

highest point in Eastern America, is a peak in the Black Mountain range a short and exceedingly high range, which lies parallel to the Blue Ridge.
 

The people of Western North Carolina hive for generation? known and loved the mountains of these three ranges, and even before they were explored and inhabited except by a pioneers and their families, among those who displaced the red man of former days, have viewed the lofty hills and ridges and gazed upon their splendor in awe akin to worship, wondering what their vast expanse might some day disclose.
 

They have seen them enveloped in misses of fleecy clouds with only their peaks appearing above; they have watched them is they glistened with a mantle of snow or heavy frost in winter; they hive seen the great giants of virgin timber lands don their new attire each spring; in summer they have paused under their great shadows or climbed to their topmost heights to stand in admiration of the entrancing panorama; they have witnessed their appearance in a gorgeous array of color in autumn, when no artist could adequately portray them.
 

But these, said by geologists to be the world's oldest mountains, constant reminders of the handiwork of the Creator of all Beauty, waited for thousands of years for

the coming or the multitudes that inevitably find their way to gaze upon the wonders of Nature, wherever found - the coming of travelers and visitors from all sections of the nation and from abroad to revel in the beauty and charm of the magnificent "Land of the Sky."                                                     

Many years ago the fame of this wonderland spread first throughout the South and Southeast.  From other sections of North Carolina, from adjoining States, and from the more distant States of the South, came visitors to find the supreme joy of living in summer among the highlands, swept by cool breezes laden with the fragrance of wild flowers and the odor of the forest, where, from hundreds of elevations, they could spend hours, days, and weeks in the contemplation of the work of Nature at her best.
 

Then, to the East, the North, and to the West went the word that here had been found a vast display of the handiwork of the Creator which no individual could live long enough to fully comprehend because of its scope and magnitude.

Travel by stagecoach first developed roads that were tortuous but were eagerly traveled by those who felt impelled to keep on going upward into the heart of the hills. Railroads came later, and villages that had nestled in the valleys or on the slopes of the mountains be-came live towns. The towns that had slowly, during many years, developed into trading centers for the natives and as headquarters for scientists, explorers, tourists and vacationists, became modern cities, linked by a network of improve highways over which automobiles have brought millions of men and women to marvel at the grandeur of "The Land of the Sky," and thousands of boys and girls to start upon life's journey with an appreciation of the beautiful in Nature and to build the foundation of future perfect health by spending their vacations in the numerous camps among the mountains of Western North Carolina—"The Land of the Sky."

MODERN HIGHWAY IN "THE LAND OF THE SKY"

PART OF THE BUSINESS SECTION OF ASHEVILLE

Asheville, North Carolina

"Metropolis of the Mountains"

IN the heart of the enchanting scenic region of Western North Carolina, "The Land of the Sky," with improved highways and railroads radiating in all direction, is located Asheville, a city of charm and attraction unsurpassed anywhere else in the world.

Leaving Asheville one afternoon on an observation car of Southern Railway System, the writer exclaimed to those around him: "I believe Asheville must be the most beautifully situated city in the world!"

"I know it is," said an elderly man who overheard the remark. "I have traveled all over the world, and I have never found a city whose surroundings were more sublimely attractive than close around Asheville."

The altitude of Asheville is 2210 feet. On all sides, entirely surrounding the city, mountains rising to a height of four, five and six thousand feet may be seen, and motor roads lead to the top of these lofty highlands, where the most wonderful panoramic views of the surrounding territory may be had.

Hotels, from the most modest type of homelike mountain inn to the luxurious hostelry, afford a variety of accommodation, where the visitor may spend a time with comfort and pleasure at reasonable rates.

Grove Park Inn, one of the world's finest resort hotels, is a rare treasure house of interest and beauty, its front lawn being the famous Asheville Country Club golf course.  Tennis courts and an archery range are among the other provision for the recreation of guests.  The inn is situated at the base of Sunset Mountain, which rises above Asheville on the outskirts of the city.

BEAVER LAKE, ASHEVILLE AS SEEN FROM SUNSET MOUNTAIN

The Manor, at Asheville, is indeed "In America, An English Inn!"  The Manor and cottages, in beautiful Albemarle Park, have been honored by numbering among their guests many distinguished personages of America and from abroad.  Guests are welcomed to the Manor for a day or a year, and at this delightfully unique inn the traveler may pause for rest and refreshment and the visitor may find a home where comfort and elegance are combined.

The George Vanderbilt is one of Asheville's most modern hostelries. With a distinguished name, it is a distinguished hotel, favored by both commercial and tourist travelers. It is surrounded by a round of activities to afford pleasant diversion to the Asheville visitor, while within it is a hotel home embodying the most complete services and comforts to its guests. The George Vanderbilt is under the direction of the Southeastern Hotels Company.
 

The Asheville-Biltmore, a high-class tourist-commercial hotel, has accommodations for a hundred and fifty guests and is centrally located, about three blocks from the shop-

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ORNAMENTAL POTTERY, PRODUCT OF THE PISGAH FOREST POTTERY, LOCATED ON THE BREVARD ROAD, A FEW MILES FROM WEST ASHEVILLE, OPERATED BY W. B. STEPHEN.  THE GLAZE WORK HERE IS ESPECIALLY FINE.  CAMEO DECORATION IS A SPECIALTY OF THIS POTTERY.

ping, church and theatre districts.  It is a comfortable, home-like stopping place for those who travel.  Every room is an outside room and has a private bath.  Since opening in 1926, this hotel has enjoyed the patronage of a clientele that appreciates a quiet, home-like place having first-class accommodations at moderate rates.

Splendid stores and specialty shops provide adequate facilities for shopping, every kind of high-class merchandise being offered at prices usually charged in the average city.

The Artisans' Shop is unique and attractive shops. It is under the direction of Mr. George Arthur, who at one time manager of the Biltmore Industries. He has been reproducing old pieces of furniture for The furniture is all hand-made by experienced cabinet-makers and wood carvers who have always lived in Western North Carolina. Native woods are used almost exclusively, and the shop specializes in making furniture to order.  Lessons in wood work are given to many trips to the shop to study the art of wood carving.  The furniture made by the Artisans' Shop ranges anywhere from small carved pieces to large sets of furniture.  Dining room and bed room sets are turned out in any style the buyer may desire.

Munger's Gift Shop is at the top of Sunset Mountain, Asheville.  This mountain rises to a height of 3110 feet above sea level and stands 860 feet above Ashville, overlooking the entire city.  A road leads out past Grove Park Inn.  From the north side of the mountain another road leads out to Mountain Meadows and unfolds some of the most magnificent views of the entire Appalachian system.  Munger's Gift Shop affords visitors a great panoramic view of the surrounding section through a genuine German periscope and offers for sale many odd and attractive gift articles, including the beautiful pottery from Pisgah Potteries.

Churches of all leading  denominations give visitors an opportunity to continue without interruption their usual custom of church attendance, and they are always welcome in the Asheville churched.

Asheville, recognized many years ago as the ideal city for recreation and as con-

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THE ARTISANS SHOP
HAND-MADE FURNITURE FROM NATIVE WOODS

venient point from which to visit the hundreds of alluring spots among the mountains, has grown to a size that makes it possible to provide the many municipal advantages of the modern city, yet is has retained its picturesque character character and has never lost any of its appeal to the vacationist, which has made it a mecca for tourists for the past fifty years.

 A visitor to Asheville may spend a few days or an entire season at whatever type hotel he prefers, and each day make an ex-interest and beauty that go to make up the vast scenic region of which Asheville is the hub, winning for her the title "Metropolis of the Mountains."

Asheville is not a one-season resort. Its temperate climate, exhilarating and conducive to outdoor life at all times of the year, makes it the center of an all-season playground. The atmosphere is spring-like throughout the year, with a vast profusion of wild and cultivated flowers in summer, gorgeous array of color in the foliage of the forests in autumn, and the mild winter climate has attracted thousands of visitors to Asheville to find health and pleasure in the bright sunshine and the delightfully tonic atmosphere.
 

Asheville's coldest month, according to the United States Weather Bureau observations for the last 23 years, is January, yet the average January temperature is 38 degrees. July is the warmest month, yet the average July temperature is only 72 degrees. Records for 21 years show that a maximum of 95 degrees was reached only once during that period, and that a temperature of 90 degrees or over is recorded on an average of but three times in two years. Zero has only been reached ten times in 22 years.
 

Outdoor sports are enjoyed at Asheville the year round, golf predominating. Asheville golf courses are famous wherever the language of the links is spoken. Asheville Country Club and Biltmore Forest Country Club courses are favorites with golf players throughout America. Other courses are the Municipal Golf Course, the Malvern Hills Course, and Lakeview Park Course. Both the Biltmore Forest Country Club and the Asheville Country Club offer visitor rates.
 

Baseball is played in one of the most beautiful parks of the country at Asheville, the city having a team in the South Atlantic League. A large football stadium has been constructed near McCormick Field. Tennis courts and swimming pools are available at both country clubs, the      Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A. at Mont-ford and Aston Parks, and at the Asheville Recreation Park, while a fine swimming pool is available by invitation at Beaver Lake.
 

Numerous trails for riding  and  mountain hiking are within easy

A FLEET OF RED TOP CABS, ASHEVILLE

Grove Park Inn, at the foot of Sunset Mountain, at Asheville, is one of the World's finest resort hotels.  Referring to the above scenes:  1 - the inn, with terraces, tennis courts and archery range in the foreground.  2 - golf course.  3 - dogwood blossom time at Grove Park Inn, showing part of the beautiful park which surrounds the inn.

reach of the visitor to Asheville, guides and horses being available, and hunters can find plenty of game in season. For the fisherman there are many fine streams well stocked with bass and trout.

Asheville originally bore the name of Morristown. The city was first incorporated under its present title in 1797, the name "Asheville" being derived from that of Samuel and John Ashe, prominent men of the period.

Scenic attractions of this delightful city and its magnificent mountain back country, began to attract attention of visitors over a half a century ago, the first resort hotel being erected at Sulphur Springs on the French Broad River.

Since the World War Asheville's development has been rapid, the population since 1920 having more than doubled. Large industrial developments have taken place in recent years, the most noteworthy advances being made in establishment of manufacturing plants for raw rayon and finished cotton products.

Asheville's advance in popularity as a tourist center is reflected in the construction of three new hotels during this period. Thousands of visitors to Western North Carolina make Asheville their headquarters, touring 'The Land of the Sky" by visiting the points of interest each day and returning to the city at night. The Red Top Cab Company provides excellent service for such trips, the highest class cars being used. Experienced drivers and guides accompany the tourists. This company also offers a "drive-yourself" service, with weekly, monthly or season rates. Some of the most popular tours are those included in trips to Mt. Pisgah, Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, Black Mountain, Blue Ridge and Montreal, Mt. Mitchell, Hendersonville and Tuxedo, Lake Junaluska and Waynesville, Tryon, Highlands, Brevard, Bryson City, and the Cherokee Indian Reservation.

Many visitors find delight in visiting the potteries of Western North Carolina, where ornamental pottery is made by hand. Some of this pottery goes to the finest gift shops in the bigger cities of the country, but much of it is sold at the pottery, and thousands of pieces are taken from this section by tourists. The Pisgah Forest Pottery, located on the Brevard Road only a few miles from West Asheville and operated by W. B. Stephen produces especially fine glaze work.
 

The W. B. Penland Pottery is located near Candler, where a variety of articles are made. This is one of the oldest potteries in this part of the United States. A more detailed description of this pottery and also a story about the Log Cabin Pottery on the Winston-Salem highway, owned and operated by Mrs. N. S. Hunter, will be found on other pages of this book.
 

Y. W. C. A. CAMP NEAR ASHEVILLE

Asheville's Educational Advantages

OWING to the healthful and delightfully pleasant climate of this section, Asheville has been selected as the location of many educational institutions. Students desiring to specialize in the arts and sciences, a general course, or a business course, will find every facility for this work in Asheville.
 

On this page are shown an exterior view and several interior views of Cecil's Business College, Asheville. This institution affords excellent opportunities to students from distant states who contemplate vacations, periods of rest, and study in this delightful all-year climate. Specialized business training in all commercial branches is provided in this institution the year round. Students from Central America to Alaska and from Maine to California; in fact, almost every State in the Union patronizes this well known school.

THE Summer Session of the Asheville Normal is one of the state summer schools of North A Carolina. The Asheville Normal is a standard, four-year teachers college, holding membership in the North Carolina College Association. The faculty consists of 90 professors selected from leading universities and teachers colleges. The Summer Session of the Asheville Normal provides an unusual opportunity for study in the midst of the most restful, satisfying, and inspiring natural scenery in America; where lofty mountains, glorious sunsets, bracing days, cool nights, and sparkling mountain streams form unspeakably precious memories; where nature invigorates and stimulates the desire to know and to improve.

Information concerning the summer session may be secured by writing Miss Frances K. Cope, Secretary, Asheville, N. C.

RHODODENDRON IN BLOOM ON THE SIDE OF MT. MITCHELL

Mount Mitchell

"Monarch of the East"

In the heart of the Black Mountains, in Western North Carolina, is found the "top of Eastern America"—the peak of mighty Mount Mitchell, towering 6,711 feet above the sea,

A trip along the automobile road, twenty miles in length, leading to the top of Mount Mitchell and to the peak of this "Monarch of the East" affords a series of views and finally a panoramic scene which thousands of tourists, including many world travelers, have declared to be beautiful beyond description.

Traveling east from Asheville, the motorist follows the Central Highway of North Carolina, known as Route No. 10, along the Swannanoa River, about sixteen miles, to a point just east of Black Mountain, where the Mount Mitchell road begins. Here the ascent to the top begins, leading along the route which crosses the Blue Ridge twice and follows closely the great Continental Divide between the Atlantic and Gulf waters for almost the entire route.

Constantly changing mountain scenes of surpassing grandeur are rapidly unfolded to view, until the road leads into the midst of towering peaks, many of them over six thousand feet high, finally reaching Camp Alice, from where a trail leads to the observation tower at the top.

Mount Mitchell is named in honor of Dr. Elisha Mitchell, who was credited with its discovery. In 1817 Dr. Mitchell lost his life on the mountain, where he had gone to assert his claim to its discovery and measurement, and was buried there on the summit, where a beautiful tower has been erected in his honor and donated to the State of North Carolina by Hon. Charles J. Harris of Dillsboro, N. C.

Dr. Mitchell fell to his death while exploring the section of the mountain near the falls which now bears his name, and his body was not discovered until a num- of days afterward.

Mount Mitchell is covered with many varieties of beautiful trees, and wild flowers grow in profusion there, the rhododendron predominating.  In making the ascent to Mt. Mitchell, one passes through two portions of Pisgah National Forest and enters the Mount Mitchell State Park on the trail from Camp Alice to the peak.

Camp Mount Mitchell for Boys was named in honor of the great mountain at the foot of which this camp is situated.  The camp was founded by Col. E. F. Watson and Hon. John A. Watson, two eminent lawyers and benefactors of Western North Carolina, whose residence is at Burnsville, N. C., and Camp Mt. Mitchell is within the incorporate limits of this town.  The most careful attention is given each boy at this camp, physical training in the form of miles conducted under the supervision of experienced counselors who know the trails, tennis, baseball, football, basketball, horseback riding, golf and other sports.  Every boy is taught swimming at Camp Mount Mitchell.  The pool is constructed of concrete, is forty by eighty feet and has a graduated depth from twenty-four inches to twelve feet.  Illustrated literature and information concerning the camp can be had by writing to Camp Mount Mitchell for Boys, Burnsville, N. C.

A panoramic view of the camp is shown on another page of this book.

Asheville to Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, Hendersonville and Tryon.

FROM Asheville to Bat Cave, Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, go via Route 20, At Bat Cave is the home and workshop of "The Woodpecker," Carl G. Freeman. This is one of the most unique and interesting woodworking shops in Western North Carolina. Souvenirs of native woods in the shape of moonshine stills, jugs, calendars, pipes, letter openers, telescopes, etc., are made and displayed here.

Chimney Rock, overlooking Lake Lure, is one of the most widely known, the most stupendously interesting and the most universally enjoyed scenic objectives in the South. Crossing the entrance bridge over the Rocky Broad River your motor easily ascends the beautiful three-mile approach to the parking place at the base of the "Chimney." Here a breath-taking panorama unfolds. It is unlike anything else. Especially conspicuous are miles and miles of giant cliffs, the break of the Blue Ridge to the eastward. These granite walls are unique in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. But everywhere there are flowers and trees and tangled e gem in the setting though is Lake Lure, and from Chimney sky view of one of the most beautiful lakes in the world.
 

The "Chimney" itself is wonderfully spectacular.  From its height of 225 fee of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Hickory Nut Gorge, towering cliffs, Piedmont plain, and Lake Lure from an encircling panorama.

To reach Sky Line Trail and Appian Way ascend the stairway to the top of the mountain above Chimney Rock; en-route the Opera Box, then Devil's Head, a remarkable likeness in granite of his Satanic Majesty. Exclamation Point is at the top of it all. Then take the new Sky Line trail to the falls, looking back along the face of the precipice by the

MOUNTAIN RUGCRAFT SHOP, AT BAT CAVE, DISPLAYING MANY UNIQUE ARTICLES OF MOUNTAIN HANDCRAFT.

Appian Way.  The Trip affords an amazing experience.  Here are Inspiration Point, Hickory Nut Falls (400 feet high) Nature's Shower Bath, Groundhog Slide, and not far away are the Needle's Eye, Pulpit Rock, Moonshiner's Cave, the Circular Stairway, and the "Rock Pile," all easily accessible by good trails, stairways and bridges.

Lake Lure is surrounded by beetling crags and rolling, forested domes, and lies in a setting of extraordinary charm. The sparkling body of clear water formed by spring-fed streams, covers 1500 acres, with many coves and inlets. A straightaway of three and a half miles in one direction and a three and a quarter mile stretch in another, with a great central basin, provide ideal conditions for water events, and swimming and boating at Lake Lure attract thousands of visitors every year.

Upon the shores of Lake Lure there has been < this a mountain lake resort of extraordinary char upon the shores of Lake Lure, beneath towering miles of roads connect with the main State high\ Many attractive homes are now being built around the shores of Lake Lure.
 

Mountain View Inn, on Chimney Rock Mountain, is the mecca of tourists and visitors to this scenic wonderland. From the veranda of the Inn can lie seen the "Chimney," the Appian Way and Hickory Nut Falls. Lovers of the outdoors will also find beautiful mountain trails to Bat Cave, Rumbling Caves, the Bottomless Pools, Rainbow Falls, Silver Falls, and Lake Lure. Mountain View Inn is open the year round.

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW INN, CHIMNEY ROCK, N. C.

Chimney Rock and Lake Lure.  1 - Cliff Dwellers Hotel and Chimney Rock.  2 - Devil's Head.  3 - Lake Lure, from Chimney.  4 - Hickorynut Falls.  5 - Lake Lure.  6 - Lake Lure Inn.  7 - Bottomless Pool.  8 - Administration Building in which is located "The Coffee Shop."

Carolina Terrace Hotel, with 100 rooms, is located on a knoll in the center of a seven-acre park, removed far enough from the street to assure quiet, and wide verandas on three sides add charm and attractiveness.

Hotel Skyland, one of Hendersonville's newest and most modern hotels, is operated by the Southeastern Hotels Company, and provides excellent accommodations for
tourists, making special rates for those who extend their stay. It is located at the corner of Main Street and Sixth Avenue. The Skyland has a coffee shop in connection.

Hendersonvilie Inn is another one of the city's modern hostelries, located at the corner of Church Street and Third Avenue. This hotel makes a specialty of luncheons and dinners during all seasons, and also provides an a la carte service.

Park Hill Inn, on Sixth Avenue, West, occupies the crest of a verdant hill in the center of a magnificent park of eight acres. It combines the delightful wholesomeness of country life
with modern attractions and conveniences, and affords an entirely homelike atmosphere. The highest concrete bridge in North Carolina is over Green River, near Hendersonville,
and the natural beauty of the territory surrounding the city has been enhanced by the building of a number of artificial lakes, notably Lake Lure near Chimney Rock, Lake Summit, Kanuga
Lake, Lake Osceola, Lake Lanier at Tryon
and Highland Lake.

Rivers in this section are the French Broad, which flows along the plateau past Asheville and into Tennessee; the Mills River,
which empties into the French Broad and the Rocky Broad in the eastern section of the county, which flows past Chimney
Rock and is there impounded into the
massive Lake Lure.

To insure a continuous and abundant water supply, pure and crystal clear, the city of Hendersonville has laid a sixteen-inch pipe line eighteen miles to the heart of the Pisgah National Forest Reserve.  The water is received from a water shed
that is twenty miles in area, entirely uninhabited and completely covered by virgin forests.

PARK HILL INN, SIXTH AVENUE, WEST, HENDERSONVILLE

The conferences of the Carolina Dioceses of the Episcopal Church are held at Kanuga Lake, six miles from Hendersonville, thirty miles from Asheville.

1 - High Bridge Near Tuxedo Power Dam.  2 - Water Flowing over Power Dam at Tuxedo Station.  3 - Apple Orchard on Lake Summit.  4 - Tea room and bathing beach at Lake Summit.  5 - Hendersonville Inn, at Hendersonville.  This city is readily accessible by rail or motor, being situated on the Southern Railway System midway between Cincinnati and Jacksonville.  Four of its highways lead into the Carolinas and one into Tennessee.

About half way between Hendersonville and Asheville is Leslie's Longvue Inn, one of the most delightful mountain inns in this in this entire section.  Leslie's is remembered by the visitor for its excellent dining and dancing.  Banquets, dinners, luncheons, and parties are catered to, and the Inn is open the year round.

On the highway from Hendersonville to Greenville, S. C., is Poinsette Industrial Shop, a community enterprised established by Mr. and Mrs. John Z. Cleveland, of Spartanburg, S. C. Its purpose is the development of latent talent in the native men, women and children of Western North Carolina, some of whom have lacked opportunity, but almost all of whom possess unusual talent.  Basketry, weaving, carding, spinning, rug making, chair making, sewing and many allied subjects are taught and much rare ability is being developed. The shop occupies tie upper floor of the community house, and the lower floor is used as a club room for the young men. The  picture shown here gives slight conception of the attractiveness of the place, which has been transformed into a unique and charming spot where formerly was only gullies and unsightly landscape.

Kanuga Lake, situated six miles from Hendersonville and about thirty miles from Asheville is now the property of four Dioceses of the Episcopal Church and is operated by them as a summer conference ground. Two conferences for young people and one for adults are held here each summer, beginning in June. During each

POINSETTE INDUSTRIAL SHOP, NEAR HENDERSONVILLE
 

The Blue Ridge Weavers

The Blue Ridge Weavers, at Tryon, offer an opportunity to purchase the handiwork of the North Carolina mountaineers. In their display room may be found hooked r u gs, knotted bed spreads, braided and woven bags, hand-made baskets, all kinds of weaving, mountain furniture, pottery, antiques, and old and new quilted spreads.

Tryon, North Carolina

"An Unspoiled Paradise"

AT AN elevation of 1200 to 1500 feet above sea level, on Highway No. 191, about eighteen miles from Hendersonville, Tryon is spread over several hills and ravines, with pleasing irregularity. The altitude and protection of the mountains result in a climate avoiding extremes of heat and cold. Here, owing to the location, winter days are seldom even bleak, and there are few occasions when walks and drives cannot be indulged in.

Lake Lanier, nestling in the foothills of the Blue Ridge on the outskirts of Tryon and covering 175 acres with crystal mountain spring water, offers its charms equally to lovers of aquatic sports and scenic beauty.

The Tryon Country Club's nine-hole golf course of 3300 yards is one of the most beautiful in the country, where golfers from many sections of the country spend the winter. Other pleasing social features are the Annual Horse Show and the Spring Festival and Tilting Tournament, a revival of an exciting medieval custom. For those who love to "ride to the hounds" there are "drag" and live fox hunts during the winter. The regularity with which people return year after year and the number of Winter and Summer homes maintained here prove Tryon's popularity.

Atop of a hill overlooking a panorama of the entire village and mountain range, Oak Hall is virtually out of town in its atmosphere and quiet, yet in town as regards its convenience to stores, railroad, library and churches. While primarily a winter resort hotel, Oak Hall is open the year round.

Mimosa Inn, located a short distance from this village, is a delightful resting place for those seeking quietude.

Tryon Riding & Hunting Club

Hogback and Rocky Spur Mountains Oak Hall Hotel in Foreground

Club House

Road scene, Gillette woods

Tryon Country Club golf course

Lake Lanier beach

BEAUTIFUL SCENES AROUND TRYON, N. C.

Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers
 

WITH all our wonderful institutions of learning in this country, there are few places where a student is paid a living wage when he enters training, but such an opportunity comes to those who are fortunate enough to enter the trade school located in Tryon North Carolina, known as the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers.  This opportunity has been given to boys and girls of the surrounding section by Eleanor P. Vance and Charlotte L. Yale, two women of unusual ability, who prefer to use their talents in helping young people find a place of usefulness in the world to seeking fame for themselves.

They first developed the Biltmore Industries on the Vanderbilt Estate, Biltmore, North Carolina. Then, fifteen years ago, seeking a quiet place in which to live they chose Tryon. Inevitably they became interested in
etc., and then, trying a new field of endeavor, they began making wooden toys. But it was not intended that Miss Vance's great love for working with beautiful wood should be limited to making toys only, so she began teaching wood-carving to a few of the young people who showed an aptitude along that line. Soon beautiful pieces of carving were added to the stock of toys which were offered to their friends for sale to help carry on the work.  And so, seeking plenty for others, but only sufficient for themselves, these women have built up a unique industry in Tryon.

From their residence the work had overflowed into a nearby dwelling, which has been converted into a painting, carving and machine shop.  And, just off the highway, near Tryon, a charming little display and salesroom has been built.  From the first glimpse of this, The Toy House, which the visitor catches, until after he has spent seconds, minutes, even hours, in looking over its treasures, he realizes that he has found something different, a "house by the side of the road," offering beauty to the world, beauty founded on and growing out of the idea of training boys and girls for usefulness and, at the same time, meeting their need to earn a living.

The Blue Ridge Association

BLACK MOUNTAIN, North Carolina, as the name implies, nestles at the foot of the great Craggy ranges, in which Big Black is the dominating peak. Two miles south of Black Mountain, and visible from every peak of the Craggies, is the Blue Ridge Association, with its wonderful equipment, where hundreds of the South's most cultured people spend their vacations.

During the winter period Blue Ridge is the home of the Lee School for Boy's and during the summer period it not only has hundreds of guests, but a series of conferences meet here every summer. There is a boys camp on the grounds. The Blue Ridge estate consists of 1619 acres of forest, fifty-six buildings, a large garage, swimming and boating lake, tennis courts, and every facility for recreation and rest. The Asheville Municipal Golf Links are within twenty minutes drive of Blue Ridge.

One of the outstanding advantages of Western North Carolina is its exceedingly favorable climate, occasions of extreme heat or cold being exceptional. This has contributed to the popularity of the Blue Ridge Association, and together with its delightful surroundings and its accessibility, makes it increasingly attractive from year to year.

Blue Ridge is on Highway No. 10, near Black Mountain. This highway leads from Asheville along the Swannanoa River, and a drive along this beautiful mountain stream is a most delightful trip.

LEE HALL, THE CENTRAL BUILDING AT BLUE RIDGE

SWIMMING POOL at LEE HALL

BLUE RIDGE NORTH CAROLINA

EVERYBODY PLAYS AT BLUE RIDGE

A SECLUDED COTTAGE at BLUE RIDGE

WALK LEADING to LEE HALL

SCENES ON THE ESTATE OF THE BLUE RIDGE ASSOCIATION, NEAR ASHEVILLE

Montreat, N. C.

MONTREAT, in the mountains of Western North Carolina, owned and controlled by the Presbyterian Church, U. S., embraces a territory about six miles in length and three miles wide, and is picturesque and beautiful beyond description. It is protected on three sides by the Blue Ridge and Black Mountains, approached from the South through a beautiful valley along the banks of the south fork of the Swannanoa River, two miles from Black Mountain, the Southern Railway Station and No. 10 North Carolina Highway. The altitude varies from 2400 feet at the entrance gate to 5 600 feet at the top of Greybeard Mountain. The average temperature the year round is 5 5 degrees, the summer months averaging 70 degrees.

Montreat is an ideal, Christian community consisting of about 300 homes besides corporation buildings. In the summer season the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church conducts its Conference and Bible School work within the grounds and in the winter season it is used for school purposes by the Montreat Normal School and public school. Not less than 20,000 attend some or all of the gatherings each year.

Assembly Inn, the new hotel, is the last word in hotel construction, absolutely fireproof, with the best, modern equipment, every room with bath, and is a most beautiful and unique building. It is open the year round for the benefit of all who wish to avail themselves of the rare privileges of the Montreat grounds.

Montreat, situated as it is in the heart of the Black Mountains, affords some truly wonderful scenery. Mt. Mitchell and its group of high and rugged peaks, including Greybeard and
the Craggies, lend magnificence to many enchanting views to be enjoyed from this vacationland.

Monte Vista Hotel, at Black Mountain, is
which have made Black Mountain a most popular summer resort. To those who prefer staying within the village itself rather than at one of the assembly grounds, Monte Vista offers a quiet and restful home. It is only a short distance from the beginning of the road leading to the top of Mt. Mitchell.

MONTE VISTA HOTEL, BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C.

Log Cabin Pottery and Gift Shop

ONE of the pioneer potteries of Western North Carolina maintains an attractive display and sales room at Ridgecrest, on No. 10 highway, about half way between Asheville and Marion, N. C., as pictured above, and also operates display rooms at Bat Cave, near Chimney Rock, N. C. and at St. Petersburg, Fla. The pottery plant is located at Guilford, N. C., consisting of a display cabin, a potter's cabin, a kiln where the clay is baked, the clay mill, and a storehouse.

While this pottery is not as large as some of the commercial potteries, it is unique in that it is the realization of a woman's dream. Its owner, Mrs. N. S. Hunter, has been modeling in clay since childhood, and this pottery now produces some of the most beautiful ornamental and useful pieces.

One of the most interesting features of the pottery is the giant vase weighing 2,000 pounds and measuring seven feet in height. It was made to test the clay and see how much bulk it could withstand. This jar has not been baked, but it is beginning to turn a very pretty shade of red from age. The output of the Log Cabin Pottery is from 200 to 250 forms a week.

IN PISGAH FOREST

Lake Tahoma

"In the Shadow of Mt. Mitchell"

LAKE TAHOMA is only six miles from Marion, N. C The excellent State Highway No. 104, from Marion to Johnson City, Tenn., skirts one edge of the lake, passing immediately through the property. It is hard surfaced through and beyond the property. The lake itself is only two miles from the hard surfaced highway No. 10, leading from Asheville through Marion to Salisbury, and East. It is also served by one of the principal lines of the Southern Railway, from Asheville to Salisbury, a through train from Asheville to Augusta in the South, and to New York in the East. It is located less than 24 hours from two-thirds of the population of the United States, and is therefore easily accessible, and though because of its location in the midst of a cluster of rugged, forbidding mountains, and its resulting seclusion and privacy, it is at the same time immediately available and conveniently located to the hundreds of thousands who may find at Lake Tahoma, rest, peace, quiet and refreshing recreation.
 

Lake Tahoma, "in the Mountains of the Gods"—such is the Indian name of the paradise of Western North Carolina, a superb name for a beautiful garden, that the Gods alone have

created and occupied. In the language of the Catawba Indians who roamed these mountains and dales, woods and peaks in the years gone by, the name Tahoma meant "In the mountains of the Gods" and you have but to drive around the lake, drinking the pure, invigorating air, and absorb the wonderful scenery, to be thoroughly impressed with the fact that there could be nothing more beautiful, more inspiring, no place more bewitching. Lake Tahoma is a beautiful, clear lake of over 500 acres, nestling in a natural amphitheatre, and surrounded immediately by gigantic rugged mountain peaks, ranging from 1,700 to over 6,500 feet in height, with here and there a sheer precipice to add a touch of awe. The lake itself is 1,500 feet above sea level, clear, blue, beautiful, displaying constant reflection of nature's wonderful picture all around. It is at the foot of, and in the very shadow of Mount Mitchell, the highest peak of the Blue Ridge, and that stately old mountain stands as a sentinel and a reminder that in such environment one's heart can be essentially nearer Heaven.

On this soil once roamed the proud tribe of Catawba Indians. Here and there will be found many interesting memoirs of Indian history, old Indian Mounds, an abundance of Indian relics. It is inspiring to climb the same hills, fish the same fish, hunt the same game, and love the same mountains that the Indians before us followed.

The Lake Tahoma development, consisting of one of the largest lakes in Western North Carolina used exclusively for recreation purposes and more than 5500 acres of adjoining land, is most advantageously located for both residential purposes and for all kinds of sports. The property has many natural advantages, not the least of which is the fact that it is almost entirely surrounded by the beautiful property of the Pisgah National Forest.

BUCK CREEK FALLS An Ideal Trout Stream

DEER ON PROPERTY

VIEW OF LAKE TAHOMA and CASINO

Lake Tahoma "In the Shadow of Mount Mitchell"

MOUNTAIN SCENE from Lake Tahoma

RAINBOW TROUT

BATHING SCENE

STATE HIGHWAY 104 Crossing the Property

LAKE TAHOMA IS ONE OF THE LARGEST LAKES IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA USED SOLELY FOR RECREATION PURPOSES

Camp Terra Alta, on Lake James

CAMP TERRA ALTA FOR GIRLS is located on the largest artificial lake in eastern America, forty miles east of Asheville, near Marion.  Lake James is a 7500-acre mountain lake, with over fifty miles of shore line.

Marion, "The Lake City of the Mountains," is also popularly called "The Main Street of North Carolina," being the hub of five distinct state highways, four of which are scenic highways leading into the Blue Ridge Mountains. There are more mountain lakes in the vicinity of Marion than any other city in North Carolina, making available fishing, boating, swimming, and other aquatic sports.

In years gone by thousands of visitors were attracted to this relatively crude and undeveloped resort section of Western North Carolina because of the picturesque beauty and healthful climate. Modern road building embodying some of the outstanding highway engineering feats of the country have changed all this. A network of hard-surfaced and improved highways connect Marion with scores of other outstanding resort centers of North Carolina.

Forty thousand acres of Pisgah National Forest are contained in McDowell County, of which Marion is the county seat.

Little Switzerland
Switzerland Inn is located in the hear of the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountain of North Carolina.  The altitude of Little Switzerland, as this section is commonly called, is 3500 feet. The Inn is within two hours drive of the famous Asheville resort  section, Linville, or Lake Lure. It is located near State Highway No. 19, a paved main artery of automobile traffic.

National Forests in Western North Carolina
FIFTEEN years ago the Federal Government launched a move to acquire for us and for l7 posterity a chain of great outdoor properties throughout the Appalachian System. It was seen that the populous east and south must depend largely upon the Appalachians for an answer to the growing need for forest products, for a pure and plentiful supply of domestic water, for water power to drive the wheels of ever expanding industry. The signs of national danger in the clogged channels of our navigable streams, in the alternating floods and dry stream beds which inevitably followed stripping from the mountain watersheds their protective forest cover, were seen and recognized.

A far-flung system of national forests has resulted, dotting our map from Maine to Florida and west to Arkansas, not yet complete but in steady process of acquisition and already constituting practical demonstrations of what forestry is and should be.

Two of the most beautiful of the national forests are to be found in Western North Carolina.

Pisgah National Forest—Headquarters at Asheville; 300,000 acres in Western North Carolina, in "The Land of the Sky." Part of this forest is also a national game preserve. First American attempts to practice forestry were made within this area prior to government ownership by George W. Vanderbilt, creator of the famous Biltmore estate at Asheville. Five public camp grounds along Pisgah Motor Road, which affords a 90-mile scenic trip. Entire forest accessible and unusually attractive.
 

Nantahala National Forest—Headquarters at Franklin, N. C. A total of 275,000 acres in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia are included. In the Blue Ridge, and a gateway to the Appalachians from the south and east. Rich forest, both northern and southern types. Headwaters of Little Tennessee and Savannah rivers. Fine camp sites; good fishing; excellent hikers' trails.

FREQUENTLY SEEN IN THE FOREST AREA

The Appalachian School For Little Children AT PENLAND, NORTH CAROLINA

THE HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, the principal building of the Appalachian School, first occupied J. in December, 1929, was a gift at the triennial convention in Washington, D. C. in 1928, by the women of the Episcopal Church from all over the world.

The Appalachian School owns two hundred and twenty acres of mountain land, divided into orchards, pas-suffered the loss of father or mother, or other misfortune.

The school consists of about sixty boys and girls in residence ranging in age from the three months old found-school period give excellent preparation for high school.

The waking hours of the children are filled with interesting responsibilities, now in the day school, or again
largely in the out-of-doors. Hikes, camping parties, swimming, horseback riding, sunbaths, sand piles, woodland play houses, with happy companionship by day and sleeping porches for the nap time and the long night sleep furnish a foundation for radiant childhood.
 

THE PENLAND WEAVERS AND POTTERS

The adult department of the Appalachian School, known as the Penland Weavers and Potters, provides employment for adult members of families living in the mountains of [his section and effects the sale of the many beautiful hand-woven spreads, table covers, table sets, scarf's and napkins. At present there are more than fifty women weaving from as many families and fifty more waiting until a wider market makes it possible to have work for them to do. The Penland Weavers do not ask for gifts nor charity—they ask for a chance to work that they and their children may have the opportunities and the independence that are necessary if one is to do one's share as an American citizen.

Camps for Boys and Girls in Western North Carolina

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA is in many respects the most favored region in the United States for summer camps for boys and girls. To those familiar with the nature and scope of the work, the summer camp for boys has so thoroughly commended itself that it requires no special advocacy. A vacation in the open fields
full description of which has been given in the story of Mt. Mitchell on preceding pages.
 

Camp Sequoyah is another well known camp in this section. Upon entering Sequoyah one is impressed immediately by the uniqueness of the buildings, the originality of the layout, and  the quaint old mountaineer cabins of hewn logs interspersed among the new log structures of more modern design.  Camp Sequoyah is fortunate in its protecting isolation, being eight miles off the highway, nine miles from the nearest village, and twenty miles from the nearest camp.

Visitors to Western North Carolina do not depend alone upon trips through the mountains for interest that are easily reached by motor over excellent highways from Asheville.  Many of them can be visited and the return trip to King's Mountain, a most interesting one to every student of American history and one that thrills every patriotic citizen.  Visitors to King's Mountain find Hotel Charles, at Shelby, N. C. a delightfully convenient hostelry, modern in every way and catering to tourists with every form of convenience.  Shelby itself is a very beautiful city.

HOTEL CHARLES, SHELBY, N. C.

Bridle Paths and Hiking Trails              IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

ALTHOUGH there are vast stretches of wilderness that have never been penetrated by human footsteps in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and there are cliffs that defy the experienced climber, almost every section of these mountains are traversed by bridle paths and hiking trails.

These winding passageways lead the nature-lover far a field into the wonderland of the numerous ranges,
ridden to high altitudes and for miles along the crest or the side of a ridge, affording the rider an ever-changing view of the lowlands below, cloud-piercing peaks above, and great waves of rugged hills to the right or left.  Some of the most advantageous outlooks can be reached on horseback.

The sport and recreation of hiking and climbing have attracted thousands of people to this section. The native mountaineer and the visitor from below have followed the trail of the Indian, who for many scores of years tramped the great highlands in search of game and in his passage from camp to camp, in the days when the Red Man was lord and master of this realm of primitive man and untamed beast. Hunters came to seek black bear, deer and wild turkey. Fishermen plied the streams for trout. Then came the summer vacationist from the towns and cities, who roamed the forests in bewilderment and wonder.

NU WRAY HOTEL, BURNSVILLE, N. C. - USED AS A BASE FOR HIKERS IN THIS SECTION

Brevard, North Carolina                        In "The Land of Waterfalls"

FROM ASHEVILLE, a trip to Caesar's Head, sixty miles distant, via Brevard, is well worth the drive. Gazing out from the top of this curious work of nature, you may look far south, with all the lowland country at your feet.  Caesar's Head is located in the northern part of South Carolina.  The mountain gradually rises from the Piedmont country to an altitude of 3227 feet above sea level, commanding a magnificent view of the surrounding countryside that dips away from its height north, east, south and west, to a horizon marked by many distant towns and famous peaks of the Blue Ridge.  It is thirty-two miles from Greenville, S. C., and seventeen miles from Brevard, N. C., from which places motor buses run over beautiful roads.

Brevard, N. C., in "The Land of Waterfalls," is the center of a scenic region widely known for its outstanding points of interest and attraction, including Caesar's Head, Connestee Falls and many places in the Sapphire Country.  It is situated in the beautiful sylvan valley, completely surrounded by mountains, some of which reach an altitude of 5000 feet and contribute much in making Brevard one of the most popular summer resorts in all Western North Carolina.

CANOEING TO ASHEVILLE, CAMPING OUT OVERNIGHT ON THE WAY, IS AN ANNUAL EVENT WITH THE CAMPERS

Camp Carolina                            BREVARD, N. C.

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA is the camping center of the Southeast for boys and girls. Scores of beautifully located and splendidly equipped camps are situated in this section. These camps arc unsurpassed in any section of the country. One of the outstanding boys' camps of this section is Camp Carolina, Brevard, N. C. Mr. H. W. Wack, who has personally inspected more than four hundred camps, states in his book on Summer Camps, "Camp Carolina, near Brevard, N. C., is physically the peer of the best camps in America and Europe."
 

The site of this camp is one of rare natural beauty and
acre lake of unusual beauty. There is sunshine in abundance and all the shade that could be desired. The thirty-follow the contour of a beautifully wooded slope and
 

In developing the site the owners have considered beauty, sanitation, and practicability.  In addition to the usual athletic fields found at  the better camps Camp Carolina has a beautiful nine hole golf course ideally suited to the use of boys and always kept in splendid condition.

Mr. D. Meade Bernard, of Jacksonville, Florida, is the Director of the Camp. After having been associated with other summer camps for many years he started Camp Carolina in 1924 and within the short space of six years the camp has become recognized as one of the outstanding camps of the country.

Mr. Bernard has associated with him in directing the policies and activities of the camp Mr. John P. Williams and Dr. J. M. McConnell of Davidson College, Davidson, N. C, and Dr.' 'Iff. Taliaferro Thompson of the Union Theological Seminary of
of experience in camping. In addition to these men there is a
activities and their assistants, all of whom arc carefully selected. There is a member of the staff for every three or four boys and the supervision over the boys is as close as could be desired.

The camp is one with a real purpose and its entire program contributes to the building of character and the making of stronger and better boys.  It is a cam which commends itself to parents who are desirous of the best for their sons, physically, mentally and morally.

MOUNTAIN WOODLAND, SPACIOUS ATHLETIC FIELD, AND AN EIGHT-ACRE LAKE MAKE UP THE SITE OF CAMP CAROLINA

THE SITE OF THIS CAMP IS ONE OF RARE NATURAL BEAUTY, COVERING OVER THREE HUNDRED ACRES

A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE, 4930 FEET HIGH, MIDWAY BETWEEN HIGHLANDS AND HIGH HAMPTON

High Hampton and Highlands                "Atop the Great Plateau"

FOR EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS High Hampton was the private estate and summer home of the Hampton family of South Carolina. Here were wont to gather men famous in the history of the South, Christopher and Wade Hampton, John C. Calhoun, the Prestons, Haskells, and others. The quiet dignity of majestic trees and magnificent hedges, the Halstead dahlia garden, the old sun dial and slave kitchen, all reminiscent of an earlier day and hallowed by association possess a charm that only time can give.
 

On the north plateau of Satulah Mountain lies Highlands, at an elevation higher than that of any other incorporated town in Eastern America. In this delightful summer retreat the thermometer has only once reached as high as 87 degrees fahrenheit during a period of forty years of official recording. At an average altitude of 4000 feet the life of insect pests is extinct.
 

The town of Highlands, in the heart of Nantahala National Forest, is unique among Western North Carolina communities. It offers variety of scenery unequaled by few sections of the entire country, and at every turn the visitor finds before him a delightful panoramic view of the surrounding territory. These include Mt. Satulah, the Fish Hawks, White-side, Shortoff, Rabun, the Nantahalas, the Smokies, and others equally famous.
 

Although Highlands is eighteen miles from a railroad it is easily accessible to Asheville, Franklin, N. C, Seneca, S. C, and Atlanta. The new State Highway No. 28 from Bat Cave to Murphy, leads through Highlands and Franklin. The road between these two towns is spectacular with the beauty of the upper Cullasaja Falls, the strange deep chasm of the lower falls and the wild laurel bordered rapids of the Cullasaja River.

Sylva, N. C.                                                                     "In the Heart of a Natural Wonderland"

LOCATED in the very heart of the mountains, Sylva lies nestled between the Great Smokies, the Balsams, the Cowees, and the Blue Ridge, giving it one of the most delightful year round climates in all Western North Carolina. The altitude within the limits of the town itself ranges from a minimum of 2000 feet, at the water level of Scott's Creek, to more than 4000 feet,
 

Within a radius of a few miles from Sylva can be found many natural wonders of unusual charm and beauty. It's a land of forest and waterfalls, with views of magnificent mountain grandeur on every side. Sylva is very near the
boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, some of the highest mountains in the Park area towering above the town.
 

Approaching Sylva from the south, either via Highlands and Franklin, or via Cashiers and the valley of the Tuckaseegee, affords the traveler views so sufficiently beautiful and varied as to make it alone well worth while traveling a long way to see. From every farm home a glimpse of the towering Smokies or a stretch of fertile valley and timbered ridge land can be seen. The natural beauty of the entire region reaches its culmination in the outlook from the top of any of the large number of peaks in the Park, reaching an altitude of from five thousand to nearly seven thousand feet above sea level.
 

The Appalachian Highway, leading from Canada to Florida, giving the traveler an unbroken stretch of modern roadway "from the far North to Sunny South," traverses this the heart of a natural wonderland.
 

Western Carolina Teachers College, at Cullowhee, eight miles from Sylvia is one of the outstanding educational institutions of the State, being an important unit in North Carolina's nationally recognized educational system. Dr. H. T. Hunter, president of the college, within the past few years has through his tireless energy been instrumental in making Western Carolina Teachers College a widely known school for the training of teachers who wish to specialize in botany, geology, and kindred subjects. The Great Smoky Mountains, within sight of this institution, afford a vast field for study and research to the student in these courses.

APPALACHIAN SCENIC HIGHWAY HALF MILE WEST OF SYLVA

WOODLAND STAGE

LOOKING NORTH from CAMPUS Great Smoky Mountain Park beyond the Mountains

MOORE DORMITORY

PART of CAMPUS

WESTERN CAROLINA TEACHERS COLLEGE, CULLOWHEE, N. C. WHERE TEACHERS ARE TAUGHT TO KNOW AND LOVE NATURE, AND WHERE THEY ACQUIRE SKILL IN LEADING CHILDREN TO LOVE THE BEAUTIFUL AND TO KNOW HOW TO EMPLOY NATURE'S BOUNDLESS RESOURCES IN MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE.

Waynesville, North Carolina         "Metropolis of the Balsams"

IT WAS soon after the Revolutionary War that pioneers from beyond the Blue Ridge came into the valley of Jonathan's Creek, builded homes for themselves, and laid the foundations of Haywood County.  They were bold and hardy frontiersmen, ready to fight the Indian or to endure the rigors of adventurous life.  They came from the eastern and central sections of the State, brought their families and settled down among the picturesque Balsam Mountains.

Soon the tide of immigration to that portion of that county overflowed into Richland Valley, and in a few years quite a community had grown up in that section.  Towards the close of the eighteen century the nucleus of a village was formed on the ridge between the Junaluska range of mountains and Pigeon Gap.  That was Waynesville in embryo.  In the course of a few years an enterprising village in the midst of a wild and unknown country grew up.

 
By 1808 several communities had been settled in different parts of the county. Besides Jonathan's Creek and Richland, there were settlements on Pigeon, Crabtree, Fine's Creek, and the Forks of Pigeon. In the same year Haywood County was formed by act of legislature, out of the western portion of
wood of Halifax County. At that time Hay-

wood County embraced all the territory now included in the counties of Jackson, Macon, Swain, Graham, Clay, and Cherokee.  One by one those countries have been formed until Haywood has been reduced to its present boundaries.

In 1808 the little village that had grownup on a village that had grown up on the ridge near the Richland Valley was chosen as the county seat and named Waynesville in honor of "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who won fame at Stoney Point and other places in the Revolutionary War.  In 1871 the town was incorporated and given the right of local self government.  From that time activity and civic spirit began to be displayed. Waynesville became known co the 'the fame of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs located on the outskirts of the town.

HOTEL LE FAINE, WAYNESVILLE

Waynesville, a mecca for vacationists, is easily accessible by automobile or by train. Within a short distance from the town there are fully twenty mountain peaks 5000 to 6000 feet high. There are two golf courses, one in Waynesville and one at Lake Junaluska two and a half miles away.  The Waynesville Club Country Course is 6348 yards long and its eighteen holes have a par of 71.  The Junaluska course winds its way about one of the most beautiful bodies of water in this part of the country.  The Pigeon and Cataloochee rivers and Lake Junaluska abound in bass and lake trout, and their tributaries are the habitat of speckled and rainbow trout, black rock bass and other species of game fish.  Nearby is Pisgah National Forest and Game Preserve, where buffalo, elk and deer roam unmolested - a vast domain that enraptures lovers of nature and wild animal life.

Hotels at Waynesville have entertained guests from over the country and from many foreign nations.  Hotel Gordon, the Piedmont, and Hotel Le Faine are among the most popular hostelries here, and have ample facilities for entertaining guests who make more extended stays.

Waynesville is the center of one of the South's outstanding fruit growing sections.  Apples from orchards in the Waynesville territory have won many blue ribbons at fairs and expositions in various parts of the country.  The high altitude, the long days of sunshine and the cool nights during the growing sections.  Apples from orchards in the Waynesville territory have won many blue ribbons at fairs and expositions in various parts of the country.  The high altitude, the long days of sunshine and the cool nights during growing season contribute to the color and flavor of the fruit, making it a great favorite in many markets of the country.  Apples from Waynesville are also exported to England and other foreign countries.

PIEDMONT HOTEL, WAYNESVILLE

Lake Junaluska N. C.

LAKE JUNALUSKA, a lovely village high in the mountains of North Carolina, once the home of the noted Indian chief, Junaluska, is now devoted to religion and as the summer capitol of Southern Methodism, is the scene of numerous and varied activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

The Southern Assembly, located twenty-eight miles west of Asheville and three miles from Waynesville, in Haywood County, includes approximately 1,200 acres of mountain land and a lake of 250 acres.  Surrounded by mountains, over fifty of which have an elevation of more than 5,000 feet, the Methodist Assembly ground offers a combination of climates, scenery, and modern conveniences not to be surpassed anywhere for rest, recreation, and study.  The climate is organized by physicians to be as fine as any in the world ; the air is dry, crisp, and bracing, with the mildness which characterizes the Southern mountains.  The days are bright and balmy ; the nights are cool.

Here from 20,000 to 30,000 persons from every section of the country gather annually for the season, and many remain till far into the fall, when woods and mountains achieve their superlative glory.  They come as students in the summer schools and assemblies, as visitors in search of recreation, or as instructors and platform speakers.  Missionaries and nationals from many countries from another interesting group and make of the Assembly a world thoroughfare.  For the accommodation of these visitors fourteen hotels and boarding houses are maintained, in addition to more than 100 privately owned homes.

This famous mountain lake resort excels in aquatic sports and other forms of recreation. Swimming, boating, fishing, camping, horseback riding, hiking and other outdoor sports attract hundreds to Lake Junaluska every year. The nine-hole golf course covers 3,163 yards and is kept In prime condition; the numerous tennis courts arc conveniently located and are kept busy at all hours. The annual boat pageant and water carnival competing for silver cups is one of the important gala events of the season, while golf and tennis tournaments held for medals and cups add interest to these popular pastimes.

At Lake Junaluska will be found a veritable campers' paradise. Four camps are conducted annually,—Camp Junaluska for Girls, Camp Cheonda for Girls, Camp Junaluska for Boys, and Camp Cheonda for Boys. Baseball,
But were there no "program," no study courses, none of the conveniences of modern life, Junaluska would still have an irresistible charm. The majesty of the surrounding' mountains, the clear waters of her lake, reflecting sun-painted peaks and tree-fringed shore, the hidden streams, the winding paths, the glory of her sunsets, her noon-day splendor, and her evening quietude invest this land with a changing charm full of wonder and surprise.

THE SOUTHERN ASSEMBLY AT LAKE JUNALUSKA INCLUDES 1200 ACRES OF MOUNTAIN LAND AND A LAKE OF 250 ACRES

AUDITORIUM

BOAT PAGEANT *** LAKE JUNALUSKA

Lake Junaluska NORTH CAROLINA

DAM & MISSION BUILDING

- GOLF COURSE -

TWENTY TO THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE FROM OVER THE UNITED STATES AND FROM ABROAD COME TO JUNALUSKA EVERY SEASON

Penland Pottery
CANDLER, N. C.
 

POTTERY was among the first of the great crafts, and one that persists today as an important industry. The potter's wheel was the first machine that man invented, and although a mold and a steel faced tool is used to help form the ware, it still requires a craftsman to operate the machine. Up to modern times the history of the human race is written more fully in pottery than in any other material. Pick up any book on archeology, or the origin of man, and from the illustrations one might think it a treatise on early pottery. Pottery as a material is interesting to most people because it more truly mirrors personality than do other mediums.

In the year 1831 William Penland first saw the need of a pottery in North Carolina. He left his kiln in England to seek better opportunities in America. Wandering through America for months he decided to start a pottery in the village of Candler, where clay could be molded by hand. The little pottery has been handed down through six generations. In the accompanying picture is seen W. M. Penland, and inset shows some of his neighbors and visitors to the pottery. The famous "Jug-town" pottery is made here, and a visit to the place is very interesting. Odd shapes of pottery nearly a hundred years old, flower pots, churns, jars, urns and vases of old and modern design are there. Many visitors go to Candler to see "The Potter" and his product.
 

The New Jackson Hotel, at Sylva, N. C-, under management of Mrs. J. S. Higdon, offers excellent accommodations to tourists and travelers. It is on the famous Appalachian Scenic Highway (N. C. Route No. 10). Golf, fishing, hiking, and horseback riding are among the recreational activities there. The New Jackson Hotel is open the year round.
 

One of the outstanding industries o£ Western North Carolina is the Champion Fibre Company, at Canton. On this page is shown a picture of one of the plants, the largest of its kind in the country, where wood pulp for paper making is manufactured. Native white labor is largely employed, affording to the families of the mountains a source of income
and contributing to their high standard of living.

CHAMPION FIBRE COMPANY, CANTON, N. C.

Power Development Enhances Beauty of This Region
 

A LARGE SUPPLY of electrical power for general use in Western North Carolina will be i the completion of a 60,000 h.p. hydro-electric development on the Nan-County, North Carolina. This development is now being constructed by the Nantahala Power & Light Company, a public service corporation.
 

The accompanying views show the Cheoah and Santeetlah developments of the Tallassee Power Company, the
will be interconnected with those of the Nantahala Power & Light Company. Other power sites will be developed as the demands justify.
 

The beautiful lakes formed by the dams will afford a paradise of pleasure for the citizens and the tourists and will add much to the beauties of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
 

CHEOAH DAM AT TOPOCA, NORTH CAROLINA

Andrews, North Carolina                            "Entrance to Nantahala"

ANDREWS is situated virtually at the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area, the Nantahala National Forest and the Nantahala Gorge. On the Opposite page is pictured a section of the gorge,' said by many world travelers to be the most superb bit
 

The Appalachian Highway leads through Nantahala Gorge, and motorists passing through this deep valley experience the thrill of viewing mountain rapids, virgin forests, and towering peaks bathed in fleecy clouds. Generations ago this was a hunting paradise for the Red Man, and today it is one of the last strongholds of wild animal life.
 

Andrews is not only a gateway to the Park, the Gorge, who come to Western North Carolina visit here on special trips through the Gorge, this being a favorite tour for visitors to this section.
 

Realizing the need of a modern hotel for the comfort and convenience of the visitors to Nantahala and the Park, Junaluska Terrace Hotel, built of native stone and well furnished, was planned expressly for this purpose by business interests of Andrews. It is situated in a six-acre tract on the outskirts of Andrews, near an excellent nine-hole golf course. Tennis, swimming, horseback riding, mountain climbing and other recreations easily consume the visitor's time, whether for a stay of a few days or a season.

JUNALUSKA TERRACE HOTEL, ANDREWS, N. C.

Modern Cherokee Indian Girl

Indians still love lacrosse their most ancient sport

She mothers her papoose well.       The old man and his squaw

CHEROKEE INDIAN RESERVATION, NEAR BRYSON CITY, N. C.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park                                                  "Land of the Everlasting Hills"

NATIVES of Western North Carolina and visitors to "The Land of the Sky" have for many years known that there was an adjoining area in the Great Smoky Mountains which afforded some of the most magnificent scenery to be found anywhere in the entire Appalachian chain. They knew that "over in the Smokies" there were many peaks almost as high as their beloved Mt. Mitchell, and that there was a vast region bisected by the lofty crest of the Smoky range which abounded in an unsurpassed variety of fauna and flora—undisturbed animal life and a great wealth of trees, flowers, shrubs and plants—suitable for a National Park of the most alluring nature.
 

The penetration of this region by foresters and adventurous seekers of the beautiful in Nature, the explorations of naturalists and scientists, establishing definite facts and disseminating information about the Smokies, the eventual building of roads leading through the area, and the advent of the automobile, whereby thousands of visitors have been enabled to approach the section, all combined to bring about a universal appeal for the preservation of this wild region by the National Government as a Park and for the conservation of the virgin forests there.

Consequently, in May, 1924, Congress passed a bill providing for the creation of a National Park of 428,000 acres in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.
 

With the gift in 1928 of $5,-000,000 by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and pledges of citizens of North Carolina and Tennessee, aggregating an additional $5,000,000 and making a total of $10,000,000 available for the purpose, the purchase of the necessary acreage for the establishing of the Park was made possible.

There are more than twenty magnificent peaks in this Park area which rise to a height of 5000 feet. Among these are Clingman Dome, 6644 feet; Mt. Guyot, 6636 feet; Mt. LeConte, 6580 feet; Siler's Bald 5700 feet; Thunderhead, 5400 feet and Gregory Bald, 5000 feet. Mt. LeConte, which is the most famous of all these, is the shrine of every Smoky Mountains pilgrim. Three to five hours are required to climb to the top of LeConte. All along the way is a wilderness of flowers and trees, ranging from species common to this section at the foot to those common to Northern Canada at the top.
 

From the summit of LeConte a superb panoramic view of almost all the peaks mentioned and many other giant-like mountains which compose the Smoky
 

Those who frequently climb to this great eminence say that upon each visit they find new wonders. At times the entire world is shut from view by the oceans of clouds that float up and around the mountain. Sunrise at such a time produces a spectacle indescribably beautiful. Storms spend themselves between

Photo by Geo. Masa                                                                             THE CHIMNEYS, NEAR INDIAN GAP

Entering the Park from Bryson City
 

THE southern boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park comes within X three miles of Bryson City, N. C-, charmingly situated in a bowl-shaped basin, 72 miles west of Asheville. The Tuckaseegee river runs through the middle of the town, which is surrounded on all sides by wooded mountains, some of the most imposing of the entire Smoky range.
 

At the upper end of town the Tuckaseegee is joined by Deep Creek, a fine trout stream that heads in the high ranges from Mt. Kephart to Indian Gap, then runs southward through the Park in a primeval forest where there are over a hundred species of native trees and thousands of species of shrubs and flowering plants that have never been disturbed by man.
 

Bryson City will be the central entrance to the National Park, on the North Carolina side. Clingman Dome, elevation 6680 feet, highest peak of the Smokies, is only nine miles from town. The highest point on this mountain is covered with dense stands of balsam trees, many of which are more than fifty feet high. Until government surveyors built a tower there it was necessary to climb a tree to get a good distant view from this point on Clingman Dome. At present, until federal highways are built into and through the Park, one can go in a car to Smokemont, on the Ocona Lufty river, then with pack horses or on foot to the crest of the divide at Indian Gap.
 

In all directions from Bryson City are picturesque drives. Highway No. 10 (Asheville to Atlanta) crosses the Balsam Mountains to Bryson City and thence over the Alarka and Nantahala ranges, through the Nantahala Gorge, a canyon 2000 feet deep, which is best seen from the top, at a point two miles out on the Robbinsville road from Topton.

Branching off from No. 10, four miles below Bryson City is Highway No. 286 to Franklin, where it joins No. 28 for the Cullasagee Gorge, Highlands, High Hampton, Toxaway and Brevard. Highway No. 288 from Bryson City follows the cliffs of the Tuckaseegee and Little Tennessee rivers, Topoco Lake, through Deal's Gap, connecting with highways to Maryville and Knoxville.
 

Ten miles northwestward from Bryson City, on Highway No. 107, is the Indian School at Cherokee, maintained by the United States government. Hereabouts, on the beautiful Ocona Lufty river, live some three thousand Cherokee Indians, on land owned by them in severalty as a tribe. These Indians, though civilized, still practice their ancient arts of basketry, beadwork, artistic quilting and needlework, pottery and curio making.
 

In October of each year the Cherokees hold an Indian Fair on the school grounds, with contests in archery, blow gun shooting, the aboriginal ball-play from which lacrosse is derived, and they engage in Indian dances. Their exhibits of the products of fireside industries, as well as the exciting games, draw thousands of visitors from all over the Union.
 

Bryson City is on the Murphy Division of the Southern Railway System. It has a municipal power and light plant, with plenty of spare power for new industries. The schools are thoroughly up-to-date. Charming Freymont Inn provides delightful accommodations for visitors. There are two golf courses, and a landing field for airplanes. Both rainbow and brook trout are in the streams nearby. Bear hunting is a favorite sport in November, back in the wilds of the Smoky Mountains, not far from Bryson City.
 

Mt. Guyot and Mt. Lumadaha are two of the highest peaks on the North Carolina-Ten-nessee line in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mt. Guyot, the round topped peak at the left in the picture, rises to an elevation of 6636 feet, while Mt. Lumadaha, the peak resembling a circus tent at the right, is only a few feet lower. These peaks arc in one of the most remote and unfrequented parts of the Smokies.

FREYMONT INN OVERLOOKS THE TUCKASEEGEE RIVER AND AFFORDS A MAGNIFICENT VIEW OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NEARBY.

MANY TAILS THROUGH THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS LEAS PAST SUCH SPOTS AS THIS

Wild Flowers Enhance the Beauty of the Park
NOTABLE among the many attractions of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and one that has evoked enthusiasm comment from naturalists and botanists of distinction, is the profusion of wild flowers to be found throughout the entire region.

Records at the University of Tennessee provide a list of 565 flowering trees, shrubs and plants in the Great Smokies, 362 of which bloom before July 1, and 203 blooming after that date. A great favorite is the rhododendron, which blooms here during the entire summer, June to September. It is found on the tops of the highest peaks, along the banks of the numerous streams, and, in fact, everywhere its rose-colored blossoms lend unending charm to the vast stretches of mountainside and forest, appearing as a mere shrub in some places, in others attaining to a height of ten to fifteen feet, sometimes even growing taller.

Mountain laurel, similar in some respects to rhododendron, is also to be found scattered over the entire park area, in many places forming an absolutely impenetrable undergrowth, hiding places for black bear and other animals, and serving as a mantle for the steep slopes, its

root growth holding the soil in place and preventing it from washing down through the gorges. Hundreds of acres of the beautiful green surface of the mountains are made attractive by the heavy growth of mountain laurel.

"Mosses and ferns and mushrooms are everywhere, and in a delightful variety, amid the fallen and decaying trunks," says Horace Kephart. "There is not a cranny in the rocks, not a foot of the wild glen, but harbors something lovable and rare. These flowers that spring up under the dense canopy of the ancient forest are such as defy cultivation. They can exist nowhere but in the untouched wildwood, which has been left to itself these many thousands of years and provides a mold rich in organic matter and so spongy as to hold moisture at all times. The decaying trunk of a fallen tree, despised by foresters, is really a priceless thing, giving life and sustenance to forms of beauty that nothing else can nourish."
 

Dogwood is everywhere in evidence, with its snow-white freshness in the early spring and its bright berries glistening in the autumn sunshine. Azalea, wild honeysuckle, sand myrtle, bluets, wild violets, and wild rose, are other favorites.
 

Thus it will be seen that the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is not only composed of mountains, forests and streams, but is also a veritable wild flower garden, Nature herself being the gardener and landscape artist.

Before the advent of the automobile, such as the one pictured here led to the valleys at the foot of the mountains now contained in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  The lure of the mountains brought visitors from nearby sections, who came to hunt, fish and visit with families whose ancestors for generations knew no other world than these hills.  A state-maintained highway passes near the spot pictured above and leads almost to the heart of the Park area.

The "Perfect" Mountain View

READING a paper before the Academy of Science, G. R. Mayfield, of Vanderbilt University in part, referring to a trip to the top of LeConte: "Up through deep cool valleys and past thick growths of undergrowth and of c-to the top about two o'clock on an early September after feet and stretching to the distant horizon in all direction: ever seen. All my life I have been looking for an ideal mountain see in your dreams and fondly believe is to be found on every mountain top.  The Rockies,
the Alps, the Lake Country of England, the Scotch highlands, the Apennines in Italy, and even Mt. Mitchell in the Black Mountain range—there had always been a doubt, a reservation as to the perfection of the view. But that day, like Archimedes of old, I felt like rushing down LeConte and shouting to the world 'Eureka, Eureka'."

CHIMNEY TOPS, IN THE HEART OF THE PARK AREA

A MILLION square miles of virgin forest was America's heritage. Practically all that remains is the woodland of the Great Smoky Mountains. Trees in this region are hundreds of years old, one writer saying of them, "many of these trees were full grown when Columbus was a babe in arms." The forests In which they thrive date from unknown ages.
 

There are 137 species of trees in the Great Smokies, and Dr. William Treleese, dean of the department of botany at the University of Illinois, says: "At the foot of Mount LeConte are trees indigenous to southern Canada. More kinds of trees can be found during a trip of thirty miles through the Smokies than can be found in traveling diagonally across Europe."
 

Unlike many of the western mountains with their steep, bare, craggy cliffs, the Smokies are practically covered with some form of tree growth, the remarkable exception being what is known as "balds"
covered with grass.
 

The forest cover is composed largely of hardwoods include many species, chief of which are
basswood, birch, cherry, sugar maple and beech. The softwoods consist of white pine, shortleaf yellow pine, hemlock, spruce, fir, Virginia scrub pine and pitchpine. The hardwoods here mentioned are quite
and in the North Central states, but in the Smokies they grow more rapidly. The black, and yellow birch, both of which arc distinct Northern species,
Great Smoky Mountains.
 

While some sections of the Park include land from which timber has been cut, there are thousands
and other kinds of trees attain to unusual size and height and lend beauty and magnificence to the entire area.
 

"The rocks of the region embraced within the Park are of varied character and age. They include limestones, shales, slates, sandstones, quartizetes, conglomerates, gneisses, schists, and perhaps some granites along their eastern boarder in North Carolina.

"The youngest of them belong to the Mississippian, and yet are many million years in age.  From these younger ones they range back through the Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician, and Cambrian to the
old — so old, in fact, that they are probably among the earliest formed rocks on the globe, and have had their age estimated at some hundreds of millions of years.
 

"North of Little River there are some Silurian and Ordovician rocks along the west base of the Chilhowee Mountains, while in Miller, Cade, TuckaIeechee, and West Coves there are large areas of Knox dolomite of Cambrian and Ordovician age. This dolomite of Cambrian and Ordovician age.  This dolomite is less resistant to erosion - and especially to solution -than any of the surrounding rocks so that after long ages of weathering it forms depressed areas, known as coves.  These coves have a much better soil than the rougher areas about them and contain the best farms of the region, in fact, they constitute almost the only good farming lands within the proposed park.  The only other lands to be classed with them in this respect are the narrow flood plains found along some of the larger streams.

"On the high crests along the state line, weathering has here and there produced great gently rounded ridges or domes that have accumulated a fairly good soil cover and that are practically, or quite, bare of trees.  They are grass-covered and form attractive park-like areas known as balds.

"Included in the gneisses are here and their areas of ancient igneous rocks that have been forces up into the overlying gneissose rocks, which may have themselves also been originally igneous. The meta-morphism has been so intense that much of the original character of these rocks has been lost. We know that they are very, very old and group them together under the term Archean, the age that includes the oldest known rocks.
 

"The geology is such as to fit the country best for preservation for its scenic beauty in a great national park."

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, nature lover and ardent advocate of conservation, was greatly interested in the Great Smoky Mountains.  Speaking of them he once remarked:

"These great mountains are old in the history of the continent which has grown up about them.  The hardwood forests were born on their slopes and have spread thence over the eastern half of the continent.  More than once in the remote geologic past they have disappeared before the sea on the east, south, and west, and before the ice on the north ; but here in the Southern Appalachian region they have lived on to the present day."

The Smokies are among the oldest mountains in the world.  Geologists declare that their formation dates back into uncounted centuries.  Nobody seems to know who named them the Great Smoky Mountains.  About two thousand Cherokee Indians are still living on their forefathers have always known them simply as "the Smokies."  Horace Kephart, foremost authority on the history of these mountains, says:

"Any visitor in the Smokies can see for himself what suggested the symbolism.  Nearly always there hovers over the high tops and around them, a tenuous mist, a dreamy blue haze, like that of Indian summer, or deeper.  Often it grows so dense as almost to shut out the distant view, as smoke does that has spread from a far-off forest fire.  Then it is a "great smoke" that covers all the outlying world; the rim of the earth is but a few miles away; beyond is mystery, enchantment."

 Even Mr. Kaphart leaves us unenlightened and neither he nor any other writer has ever adequately described the haze which enshrouds these age-old hills.  One will say it is " bluish purple"; another will describe it as "purplish blue."  Some beautiful paintings of the Smokies have been exhibited, but no artist has ever been able to satisfy the critical eye of one who knows and loves these majestic towers of creation.

 It should be borne in mind, however, that the "mist" referred to so often in connection with these mountains, is not a fog or other form of dampness.  Neither is it smoke.  It seems to be more dense at times, but always lends beauty and attraction.  This mysterious haze has always been seen, and is not as some uniformed have thought, due to a drift of smoke from over the surrounding territory.

Copyright, Jim Thompson Co.                                ALUM CAVE BLUFF, ON THE SIDE OF MOUNT LeCONTE - A FAVORITE HAUNT OF THE EXPERIENCED SMOKY MOUNTAINS HIKER

Col. David C. Chapman with "Smoky Mountain Bob" This specimen is now in the Washington Zoo g

THESE TIMID BUT FLEET ANIMALS INHABIT THE WHOLE OF THE PARK AREA AND LEND A MYSTIC CHARM TO THE WOODS.

Grey Squirrel

Intimate Studies of Wild Life in the Great Smokies

A PET COON

OPOSSUM

RACCOON

f Black Bears still inhabit the Area

PHOTOGRAPHS BY RUSSELL HARRISON                                          Knoxville,

WILD ANIMALS OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK

BANDING THE BALD EAGLE

COMPETENT OBSERVERS REPORT OVER 200 SPECIES ANNUALLY.

Raven

Fledgling Dover

Male Red Tailed Hawk

Young Sparrow Hawk

A young naturalist with pet Sparrow Hawks

The Great Blue Heron is often seen on the Tenn. River and its Tributaries

RED TAILED Hawk (Female)    The most beneficial of all the Hawks

Photographs by Russell Harrison, Knoxville, Tenn.

THESE AND OTHER FEATHERED CREATURES ATTRACT NATURALISTS TO THE PARK

Leaders in Smoky Mountains History
 

WRITERS of fiction and the purveyors of "feature" articles for the magazines have so long made a specialty of picturing the Southern mountaineer as a grizzly old bewhiskered moonshiner and feudist, living in constant defiance of law and civilization, that many Americans who know no better are accustomed to thinking of him as a menace to society!

Such misrepresentation, based on the character of a few as indicative of the mode of living of every male inhabitant of the Southern highlands, is as unjust as it is ridiculous to those who know the real character of these good people.

 "The frontier cabin of America should be emblazoned on her coat of arms," says Robert Lindsay Mason, author of "The Lure of the Great Smokies."  Continuing, this writer says the cabin is the emblem of the American, because it is like no other cabin on earth; that it appeals to every true American and awakens visions of upstanding men, fearless fighters, determined homemakers, invincible republic builders.  "At once it suggests danger, hardship, endurance and courage; it suggests clean -mindedness and good citizenship," he says. He then recalls many famous Americans born in these cabins, some of whom were Jackson, Lincoln, Boon, Shelby, Robertson, Crockett, Houston, Blount, Custer, McKinley, and Xavier. Mr. Mason adds: "Practically all of our frontier leaders of the Old South came from humble cabins, and certainly all the leaders in Smoky Mountains history lived in them. As these cabins were in the thrilling days of Xavier, Boon and Crockett, so are they yet in the Great Smokies."
 

What a vindication of the Southern mountaineer, with his whiskers and his moonshine!  And those who know him best are those who love him best - those who have tramped the wild willows with him, hunting, fishing and camping, an association that always brings out the best that is in a man, because he is then so close to Nature - they know that the Smoky Mountains native is, as a rule, a law-abiding, God-fearing citizen, whose quaint philosophy and manner of reasoning, whose hospitality have won for him many lifelong friends among the people of the lower lands who are often his guests.