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Memorial presented to 56th Congress

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  • 4 APPALACHIAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION. place for the commencement of forestry operations, and perhaps as the location eventually of a national school of forestry. THE TITLE TO THE LAND CAN BE EASILY ACQUIRED. A site for the park can easily be chosen where the land is held in large areas and where the settlers are few. The land now sells for about $2 an acre, so that a comparatively large park could be secured at what would be greatly less than its value to the nation. That the foregoing are the considerations which your petitioner deems of the most imperative nature, and which it respectfully suggests should have the early attention of the Congress. That your petitioner does not consider that it would be proper for it to suggest in anything more than a general way what should be the area or the boundary lines of a park in the southern Appalachian region. In the opinion of your petitioner this is a matter which could well be left to the decision of the forester of the' Government. Your petitioner is, however, of the opinion that it would be proper to express its conviction that whatever may be the decision respecting the area or exact location of such a national park, it should contain the highest mountains and the finest scenery in the whole Appalachian system, and this is found in the heart of the Great Smoky and Black mountains, and that the park should also embrace the largest area of virgin forest and the finest example of mixed forest in America, and this is found in the heart of the Balsam Mountains, and these are all embraced within the limits of the tract hereinafter described. This tract of land will be found to comprise two larger areas of land, each lying partly in Tennessee and partly in North Carolina, connected by a narrow strip extending along the line dividing these States, and embracing land in each of them. In the eastern end of this tract will be found, with others, the following-named mountains: Feet. Mount Mitchell 6, 711 Balsam Cone 6, 671 Deer Mountain 6, 233 Roan Mountain 6, 313 Big Craggy 6,068 Potato Top 6, 393 Black Brother 6, 619 Cat Tail Peak : 6,611 Black Dome 6, 502 Mount Gibbs .' 6,591 Mount Habback 6,403 Hairv Bear 6,691 Long Ridge 6,259 In the western part of said tract will be found Mount Guyot (altitude 6,636 feet), Clingman's Dome (altitude 6,660 feet), Bald Mountain (altitude 6,220 feet), and many other high mountains, as well as the untouched tract of virgin forest hereinbefore referred to. Your petitioner therefore states that, in its opinion, by far the best land for the. Appalachian national park lies between parallels 35 and 37 north latitude, and between the lines 82 and 85 west longitude, and within the tract described as follows: Beginning at Johanna Bald Mountain, in the State of North Carolina, on the line dividing the county of Graham from Cherokee and Macon counties, and running thence easterly along said line and the line between eastern Graham County and Swain County to a point on
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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