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Horace Kephart and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • time this book, now in its twentieth printing, became recognized as the standard work on the subject. In 1913 appeared his classic chronicle of Smoky Mountain people: Our Southern Highlanders. This was an immediate success. It established his reputation, lending weight to his influence in the subsequent fight for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. When Horace Kephart came to the Smokies in 1904, they sheltered the last significant remains of the great virgin forest that once covered nearly all of Eastern America. By coincidence Kephart and the §aLnt lumber companies discovered this great resource about the same time. In 1901 Col. W. B. Townsend chartered the Little River Company, began acquiring lands on the Tennessee side, and eventually pushed a standard guage railroad up the Little River into an 86,000 acre tract. The Ritter Lumber Company began buying land on Hazel Creek the year before Kephart arrived. In 1909 they installed a double-band sawmill at Proctor and ran the Smoky Mountain Railway down Hazel Creek to connect with the Southern. The Parsons Pulp and Lumber Company built a double-band mill at Ravensford and the Appalachian Railroad to bring the lumber out to the Southern at Ela. The Carolina Timber and Land Company bought 54,000 acres in the Big Creek section at the eastern end of the Smokies in 1898, built a large mill at Newport and a railroad to Waterville. The Champion Coated Paper Company bought its first 10,000 acres in 1905. Eventually it held 92,000 acres in the heart of the Great Smokies (one-fourth of the present park). The Oconalufty Railway connected its mill at Smokerffont with the Appalachian Railway at Ravensford.5 These large operations with.their railroads thrusting deep into the heart of the mountains created a revolution in the Smoky forests. Before 1900 small enterprises, using mainly animal and water power, had practiced -selective cutting along the fringes of the mountains ano up the more accessible watercourses.
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