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Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906

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  • Page 4 10th: Through the organization in Asheville, have prepared a memorial to Congress, embodying the necessities, feasibility, the cost, and the possibility of a forest reservation or national park in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Judge Day stated that such a memorial or such a bill presented in Congress would at first receive soant notice; but if the matter was persisted in that it would eventually gain such momentum that nothing could stop it and that while the same might not come in his or the writer's generation, he felt sure that if such a plan were oarried out that there would eventually be a national reserve or park in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. On his return to Asheville, the writer dis- oussed the matter with A. H. McQullkin who at that time was here in Asheville running a print shop and publishing a small magazine knov/n as "Southern Pictures and Pen- cillings". Mr. MoQuilkin became intensely interested and through the efforts of these two men, the movement had reached such proportions that on the 19th day of August 1899, 0. P. Ambler wrote a letter to Hon. Jeter C. Prltchard, United States senator from North Carolina, asking if he would support the movement, suggesting a meeting to form organization in Asheville to promote the movement, and submitting for Mr, Ptitehard's approval the draft of
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  • This 72-page journal recording “The Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906” was compiled by the association’s secretary and founding member Chase P. Ambler (1865-1932). The manuscript was created in 1929, the year Ambler donated the association’s records to the State Archives. The Appalachian National Park Association was formed in 1899 for the purpose of promoting the idea of a national park in the eastern U.S. Although housed in Asheville, North Carolina, the organization was a multi-state effort, attracting representatives from six southern states. The association lobbied Congress for the creation of a park, but with limited success. The association disbanded in 1905.