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Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Land of the Everlasting Hills

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  • ""* . .... COURTESY TENN MILL & MfNE SUPPLY CO. #wn* NATURE'S CONSTANT SUPPLY OF WATER POWER BEING UTILIZED Mason refers to the early white settler of the Great Smokies as a courageous pioneer who lived in bloody strife with the Indian and the French and his English relatives who undertook to compel him. He braved these foes within his own home, which of necessity was sturdily built, and some of them are still standing. These people were self-reliant, ingenious and industrious. This is evidenced today by remaining landmarks such as the old mill pictured on one of these pages. This is typical of the way in which the old-time mountaineer of the Smokies coped with the lack of more effective means of providing for his needs. His fare was simple, but it has never been said of him that his family suffered because of inadequate supply. And his hospitality was notable, as if he felt constrained to follow the injunction to "be not forgetful to entertain strangers." These attributes, all too briefly noted here for lack of space, characterize the present day descendants of the dwellers of the "great hill country" of earlier days. They no longer live in the backwoods, however. The fame of the Great Smokies is spreading to the outside world. The traveler, as well as the visitor from nearby, comes, sees, and goes away to return again and again, bringing others with him, so that the native of the mountains, although he remains and has no inclination to move out, is himself a picturesque milepost along the way of progress, whereby the Great Smoky Mountains becomes the heritage of all the people in the form of a national park. trickling falls
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