Western Carolina University WCU University of North Carolina Asheville UNCA

Southern Appalachian Digital Collections

Western Carolina University (20) View all
University of North Carolina Asheville (6) View all
WCU - Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

items 6 of 14 items
  • wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9758.jpg
Copyright Download
Item 1 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9753.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_01
Item 2 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9754.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_02
Item 3 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9755.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_03
Item 4 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9756.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_04
Item 5 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9757.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_05
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9758.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_06
Item 7 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9759.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_07
Item 8 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9760.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_08
Item 9 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9761.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_09
Item 10 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9762.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_10
Item 11 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9763.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_11
Item 12 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9764.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_12
Item 13 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9765.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_13
Item 14 - Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9766.jpg

Federal court records, Belding et al. v. Hebard: Slick Rock Creek area

GSMNP_13150_17_1131_14
Item
?

Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).

  • . ■ ■ \ ■ .■ .■ ■ .■ .. ■ ■ ■ ■ . ■ -■■ ... ■ ■ ■ - ■.. -.:■;■■ -. ■ . .■ : . ■ ■ - ■ ■ ■ - ■ .-■-.■■.., wmmm >;'e;> ' . ■■W-m mm tween the Smoky and the Unicoy Mountain. The cession act placed the boundary "along the extreme height of laid mountain (that is, the Great Smoky) to the place where it is called TJnicoy? or 'Unaka' Mountain." It was the duty of the commissioners to locate the line "agreeably" to this call. They bad been following the extreme height of the ridge between the Smoky and the Tennessee river. The river cul through the ridge by a deep gorge, the .mountain on either side gradually lowering, and terminating at the river in a bluff. The last monument on the northeastern side is a tree marked as a fore and aft tree. A fore and aft tree is a tree in the line, and the chops are on the sides showing the direction of the line. The chops OH this tree indicated that the line there crossed the river. The general course of the line, as called for by the call which brought the line to the river, was southwesterly, and this course was to be continued to the Unaka. The course would, therefore, require the line to there cross the river, as also indicated by the chops on the tree. The general direction of the cession act would keep the line on the extreme height of the mountain ridge or range. Immediately across the river, and in the general course of the line, was the Hangover ridge. This ridge is joined by another ridge called the "Fodder Stack," some eight or ten miles southwest. Its height increases after it leaves the river, and the highest points between the river and the junction with the Fodder Stack are the Hangover and Hao peaks, the former having an altitude of about 4,500 feet From the point where it is joined by the Fodder Stack ridge or spur, it is admittedly the main ridge, and further southwest becomes the Unicoy or Unaka. From the river the general course of Hangover is southwesterly, and therefore in the general course of the lint as described in the cession act. One-half mile below the state-line fore and aft tree, a creek known as "Slick Rock'Creek" empties into the river on the opposite side. That creek is some eight or ten miles in length, and has one or more branches. A short distance below its mouth a low spur approaches the river, called "Slick Rock Spur," being a spur of Fodder Stack ridge. Some seven miles up the creek another spur of Fodder Stack is found. The basin of the Slick Rock is about eight miles long and three miles wide. It is bounded on the south and southeast by the Hangover ridge, on the north and northwest by the Fodder Stack ridge, and on the north and northeast by the Tennessee river and the Slick Rock ridge. The mountains shutting it in are from 1,000 to 4,000 feet high, and the basin itself is a rough, broken mountain valley, almost impenetrable by man. The master reports that the Hangover ridge was the main or highest ridge, having an average height of 800 feet greater than the Fodder Stack. It is admissible, in locating a line, where a difficulty exists in identifying monuments, natural or artificial, to run the line in a reverse way, if thereby doubts may be the better solved. "The footsteps of the original surveyor may be traced backward as well as forward." Ayers v. Watson, 137 U. S. 584, 590, 11 Sup. Ct. 201, 34 L. Ed. 803; Coaf Co. v. Doran, 142 U. S. 417, 12 Sup. Ct. 239, 35 L. Ed. 1063. So any ascertained monument may be adopted as a starting point, where difficulty
Object
?

Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).

Related items

Part of Collection

Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

View collection Read introduction
panzoom image
wcu_great_smoky_mtns-9758.jpg