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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • doah and Great Smoky Mountains areas for selection as national parks. It also said that it had made a careful examination of the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky and believed sufficient reasons existed to warrant its acceptance as a national park. The commission informed the associations and organizations in the States in which these national park areas are located that the lands within the areas must be presented to the United States Government in fee simple before such areas could become national parks. In compliance with the suggestions of the commission the following organizations were incorporated to aid in meeting the requirements: In Virginia, the Shenandoah National Park Association; in Tennessee, the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association; in North Carolina, the Great Smoky Mountains, Inc.; and, in Kentucky, the Mammoth Cave National Park Association. Campaigns were launched. In North Carolina and Tennessee, as in Virginia, many citizens responded with liberal donations. On April 1, 1926, the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association and the Great Smoky Mountains- Inc., reported that Tennessee and North Carolina had raised jointly the total sum of $1,066,693.91. The Shenandoah National Park Association reported on April 3, 1926, that the total amount raised in donations had netted $1,200,000. The government commission then recommended that the Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains areas be made national parks. It also recommended that the Mammoth Cave National Park be established. On April 14, 1926, Representative Temple introduced in the House a bill to provide for the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This bill, which included a provision that administration and protection could be undertaken when a minimum of 150,000 acres in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area had been presented to the Federal government in fee simple, was passed by the Senate and House and 85
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