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Origin of place names in the Great Smoky Mountains

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  • ORIGIN OP PLACE HAMBS in the GREW SMOKY MOUNTAINS, By Horace Kephart. Careful study of many old maps and historical records, including official documents, establishes the faet that the segment of the um&ka sontanlo system sow known as the Great Smoky Mountains, forming part of the border between North Carolina and Tennessee, had no name of its own until about the beginning of the American Revolution* Prior to that time the general term Appalachian Mountains was applied to the highlands of the South, without separate names for their segments. (See appended report entitled "The Great Smoky Mountains - Origin of the lame.'*) When a distinct name was given to the range in question, it was not ©ailed Great Smoky Ifountains, but Great 3ron Mountains, fh© latter designation was used in the Aet of 1777 by which the General Assembly of Worth Carolina erected the district of Washington into Washington County, which extended to the Mississippi Elver and included the present State of Tennessee. (For the full text see Laws of North Carolina, 1777, in State Records of North Carolina, vol. XI.IV, p. 141.) Likewise in the treaty of October 2, 1798, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, the Smokies were called the Great Iron Mountain. (TI.S. Statutes at large, vol. VII, p. 62. Also, for details, see Royoe, The Cherokee Mation of Indians, in the 5th Annual Report of the If. S. Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 166-169 & 174.) The name Great Iron Mountain was the legal and official designation of what Is now called the Great Smoky Mountains for a considerable time before the term Smoky supplanted It. The first use of Smoky, &s en alternative title for the Great Iron Mountain, was in the Act of November, 1789, in which the General Assembly of North Carolina offered to cede the aforesaid Washington County to the United States, thereby providing for the erection of a new State* This act of cession, after delimiting the boundary from the intersection of the Virginia line with Stone Mountain and thence to the Painted Rock on the French Broad River, continued in
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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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