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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 24 States Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in Relation to Forests, Rivers, and Mountains of the Southern Appalachian Region." This volume of 210 pages contains the memorial of the Appalachian National Park Association on page 159| contains the preliminary report of Iresident MoKinley on page 166; oar- rles copies of the bills which had been passed by the legislatures of the various states involved--Virglnia on page 172, North Carolina on page 173, Tennessee on page 174--and also maps, photographs, and data showing the necessities and the feasibility, the possibility, and the advantage of the government taking over a part of the Southern Appalachians. In fact, this volume Is the most comprehensive work which had, up to that date, been published in reference to the Southern Appalachians and is presented herewith as "Exhibit H". The data for this volume, Senate Document #84, 57th Congress, was compiled by the North Carolina Geographical Survey with some assistance by C. P. Ambler. During the five years following 1900, Senator Pritohard and Congressman Moody eaoh pushed the matter before his respective body in Washington, with the results that one year a bill carrying from five to ten million dollars appropriation would pass
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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.