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Handbook/ 1931/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • we think that the better way from Knoxville would be via Morristown, Greeneville, turning northeast from U.S. 11-E just south of Jonesboro. the old, historical capital of Tennessee or "The Free State of Franklin," as it was first called, and going across the Nollichucky River to Erwin, Tennessee, and thence over 19-W through the Unaka National Forest to a junction with 19-E a few miles west of Burnsville, thence over 19-E to Burnsville, Yancey County, N. C. Here we will have the most attractive and inexpensive comforts for spending the night in a summer camp with provisions for any number on the outing and with the Nu Wray Hotel, which hotel has become famous for its delicious meals, which have been the delight of everyone stopping at Burnsville. Yancey County, North Carolina, has been famous through generations for the very fine quality of apples that are grown there, thousands of bushels of which are trucked to Knoxville's unequalled public market. Yancey County lies on an elevated area in the Appalachian Highlands under the shadow of Black Mountain, the range of which Mount Mitchell is the capstone. From Burnsville, the hikers can ride all the way to the top of Mt. Mitchell, or they can go a part of the way and hike the remainder of such distance as may suit their taste. On this route we will be following up the headwaters of some of the important confluents of our Tennessee River which receives its name permanently at the junction of the Holston and French Broad, four miles east of Knoxville. It may be interesting to say that a recent survey made by a cavalryman in the U. S. Service, showed that more than fifty important streams combine to make the Tennessee River before it reaches Knoxville. We believe that the importance of this trip, historically, scenically, and emotionally, justifies full quotation of the following tribute of Landon C. Haynes, to the region through which we travel. It certainly is important that Knoxville, the capital of East Tennessee, should be acquainted with this inimitable, spontaneous and poetic description of our lovely East Tennessee and western North Carolina, of which Knoxville is the metropolis. 28
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