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Nomenclature notes: suggested changes to place names
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Item’s are ‘child’ level descriptions to ‘parent’ objects, (e.g. one page of a whole book).
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/ i (° l, ~ tr SUGGESTED CHANGES Op1 LOCAL Iw/J^S in I. C. area of GREAT SHOSY MOUNTAIIS NATIONAL PARK >-i ;'< ;;< ?:< y/c s?« The Nomenclature Committee of the North Carolina Park Commission has found so many duplications and reduplications of local names i the Smoky Mountains National Park area that changes should he made to prevent confusion. For instance, there are now five Big Creeks on the North Carolina side, five Big Branches, four Indian Creeks, four Long Branches, three Bear Creeks, three Nettle Creeks three Stillhouse Branches. In the following provisional list No personal names are used, other than Indian. Many Indian names that would otherwise be appropriate have been ruled out by reason of their excessive length, or because they are difficult for whites to pronounce. Those here suggested are short and musical. They ore spelled in such way as to suggest their pro-- por pronunciation by English-speaking people, and not according to the Continental system used by scientists. Numbers here refer to footnotes. Old Name Baxter Creek, Lower. Baxter Creek, Upper. Location. Big Creek. Suggested Name. Baxter Branch. Gunter Fork. Bear Creek Bear Creek Bear Creek Beech Creek Beech Creek Cataloochee Big Creek Forney Creek Cataloochee Deep Creek Big Creek Big Creek Big Creek Big Creek, Lower. Big Creek, Upper Big Branch Big Branch Big Branch Big Branch Big Braneh Big Branch Big Spring Braneh Big Spring Branch Board Camp Branch Board Carat) Branch Fork of Pigeon River Forney Creek Eagle Creek Bradley Fork it :i Big Creek Snloe Creek Deep Creek Noland Creek Bone Valley Eagle Creek Raven Pork Straight Fork Forney Creek Ekanetelee Ck. Bear Creek Bettis Branch Gunleeta Creek (l) Beech Creek Salilee Creek (2) Big Bald ( Hughes Ridge)I-lead od Beck Br. Becks Bald Big Creek JCeeyuga Creek (3) Gunna Creek (4) Chasteen Creek (5) Taywa Creek (6) Barnes Braneh Hideaway Brook Hermit Brook Salola Branch (7) IPanda Branch (8) Taweesky Braneh (9) Fountain Braneh Qpiillaree Brr.nch (10) Board Camp Branch Shelter Branch Bradley Fork: Headwaters left prong " middle prong right prong Bryson Branch Bryson Branch Cherry Creek Cherry Creik s Deep Creek Collins Creek Oconaluftee Deep Creek Chasm Prong Prowning Rock Prong Gulf Prong Brjrson Branch Newton Branch Cherry Creek Kamama Creek (11)
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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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