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Nomenclature notes: various spellings of Tuckaseegee

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  • Cherokee words some occasion very hard to spall in -.nplish so that above references seem to be spelled e .c cording to pronunciation by writer v,-hora has inforaations or heard from local people. Part :eov taluche antihala ..ya (Cherokee for "al, mm ( ?f " Cat) Present iQQilh /kilo a eh ee xntahala .yah 'csser yah 'salcl in •. m . ,inf "'cLler ft Oroaseup in their tae ^eart of the Allaghanies called EOft BAUI* hen pronounce sound more like ■ RRIGB and so on when you ask local mountaineers ..bout bam to spell and the anovier is cionH j»|gy;« ^u*^ they tell you t name, so spell an near as possible. !;• Cs , ell T!?C • mid a bank at hylva spell sane way* and many local usage TUC
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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.