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Nomenclature Decisions of the United States Geographic Board

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  • 8 DECISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES GEOGEAPHIC BOAED Wilmoth Hollow: Rockbridge County, Va., the north branch of Lowry Run. Wilmoth Hollow and Poplar Grove Run form Lowry Run at approx. lat. 37° 42' N., long. 79° 22' W., Natural Bridge National Forest. (Not Mountain Branch.) Name Wilmoth Hollow is preferable because this name is in common local use, being named after Geo. Wilmoth, an early settler who had his home at the head of this hollow. CORRECTIONS The following decision found in the Fifth Report is vacated: Ignacio Lakes or Cascade Lake, rendered February 7, 1906, in La Plata County, Colo. See Eleetra Lake, de ision in this leaflet. Decisions No. 1, October 1, 1930 Middle Fork, Piedra. Line 1, strike out " River: creek" and insert ": creek." Decisions No. 18, June 1, 1932 Strike out " Lacy: see Alexander Magee, brook, Pa." and " Waid: see Henry Magee, brook, Pa." See decisions on Alexander Magee and Henry Magee in this leaflet. U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1937
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  • Like many rural areas, names of places within the Great Smoky Mountains were sometimes redundant or known by different names in different localities. In the 1930s, the National Park Service appointed a Nomenclature Committee from North Carolina and one from Tennessee to make recommendations to U.S. Geographic Board which decided upon “official” names for peaks, creeks, and roads. Photographer and park advocate, George Masa served on the North Carolina committee. Born Masahara Iizuka and raised in Japan, George Masa (1881-1933) emigrated to the U.S. when he was 20 years old and, in 1915, came to Asheville, where he lived the rest of his life. Masa was active in the Appalachian Trail Club and in the movement to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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