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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • a second park in the Great Smoky Mountains, which lie some m miles distant southwest." The commission also said that W, r l , 'eS StaDd first in aItitude a"d in some other lfsh fi I ',Ut o Ult CertaiD faCtors made ^ advisable to estab- h££ * X S^nandoah National Park, the ruggedness and height of the Great Smokies making road and other park development a serious undertaking as to time and expense. h;n >lnU'r*y' 192S' RePresentative Temple introduced a DW in the ( ongress to provide for obtaining lands in the southern Appalachians for preservation as national parks. J he t ongress enacted legislation authorizing the Secretary or the Interior, through a commission to be appointed by Jim, to obtain all the facts necessary to be considered in Z l"gff°"ei °r m°re nati0nal Parks* The members of the I unoli.eial commission were appointed on this official common. After another lengthy investigation, this official com- mis ion reported, m April, 1926, that it bad found much add.t.onal evidence of the eminent worthiness of the Shenan- 84
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