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Nomenclature notes: suggested changes to place names
Item
Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).
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i V" THOMAS RIDGE. SHAWANO. After Col. W. H. Thomas, adopted son of Yonaguska and agent for the Eastern Cherokees. ( See his life in Mooney ) See Mooney's " Myths of the Cherokee" P.406. A Shawano war party halted here to make arrows MOUNT LOVE and MOUNT BUCKLEY If there is no confusion to loca-te these two peaks on Clingmans Dome group,,..these two names re suggested as Pro. Guyot'^''statement :- — It would seem natural thajb' the name of the three gentlemen of the party, and''not that of one only, should a* recalled by being applied to the three highest peaks which compose that group. The Central, or highest peak, ig therefore designated as Clingganls Pome, the south peak, next in height as Mount;-Suekley, the north peak as Mt. Love " ■ Guyot' s/measureme,nts as follows:- PLINGMAN'S DOME - /MT. LOVE MOUNT BUCKLEY 6660 (Central peak) 6443 (North peak) 65?9. (South peak) Tenn. Park Commission'3 Top^-map:- ■ CLINGMANS DOME 6642. x MT. LOVE 6400 plus z MOUNT BUCKLEY 6500 plus x - Mt. Love location,/between T.B.M.624,3 and T.B.M.6566,(ZmFhigh knob, ■ z - Mount Buckley West peak of Clingman U. S. G. S. Bench Mark:- CLINGKANS POME 664? * BLAZED BALSAM 6243 +. M,c,rAvV Co™mvA,svoyAs wa-|5v
Object
Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).
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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 decide 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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