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- A STUDY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MOUNTAIN CULTURE IN FIELD MUSEUMS OF HISTORY CHARLES S. GROSSMAN Copvjriglited Material Great Smokvj Mountains National Park ■ Pioneer structures of all types are to be found in the Great Smoky Mountains Hational Park, most of them being of log construction. These buildings were literally carved out of the wilderness with ax and auger by the pioneers who settled in this region. The pioneer culture of one hundred and fifty years ago has been preserved here in the Great Smokies. Progress has failed to penetrate this isolated region until recent years. Industries, domestic arts, ballads and many forms of speech have remained unchanged. Spinning, weaving, milling, tanning leather, cobbling and many other activities, which in the complicated life of today are major industries, were retained here in their domestic form as a part of the daily life of the people. Pioneer structures are to be found in other parts of the country, but these in most instances are isolated buildings. The culture of the people who originally occupied them has disappeared, leaving little or no evidence of its existence. Many complete groups of pioneer structures in the Great Smoky Mountains have the most primitive settings to be found in thi3 country. These groups include domestic and farm buildings, and nearly all types of the early industries. Nowhere except in the Great Smokies is it possible to compare and study the effect of topography and the forest on the life of the pioneers. These features in the various areas influenced the number of buildings in each group, their size and their construction. Cabins and barns in rugged areas are small while in the larger coves,there being an opportunity for grazing, the barns are very large and the numbers of the buildings in each group increased proportionally.
Object’s are ‘parent’ level descriptions to ‘children’ items, (e.g. a book with pages).
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This 28-page book, “Study for the Preservation of Mountain Culture,” was written by Charles S. Grossman (1900-1972) for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. An architect by trade, Grossman worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps, but spent most of his time on historic preservation. In the 1930s, he began an inventory of existing structures in the park, cataloguing more than 1,500 structures. This 1937 report highlighted the results of the historic buildings survey and advocated for a “policy or program to preserve this wealth of material” before “it is destroyed and lost.” Grossman rightfully concluded that much could be learned about pioneer life from studying its material culture.
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America
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Activities of the Appalachian National Park Association and the Appalachian National Forest Reserve Association: 1899-1906
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Photo Album of the Great Smokey Mountains
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Two-track road near Campbell’s Hump
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Handbook/ 1934/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club
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Correspondence between Miss Una Plott and Mrs. Ola Plott Ingram to Zebulon Weaver, June 1933
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Little River Lumber Company: cutting poplar lumber
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Cataloochee tract 231: W. G. B. Messer
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Wauchecha Bald and Cheoah Bald
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Correspondence: Horace Kephart to Zebulon Weaver, December 24, 1924
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Minutes of Meetings of the Appalachian National Park Association
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Minutes of Meetings of the Appalachian National Park Association
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Goat's Beard
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Mountain family
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Sawteeth Range
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Velma Gail Edmondson and Dent Frizzell on Mount Guyot trail
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Newfound Gap view
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Ferns of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Mount Mitchell (elevation 6711ft) from the Blackstock Trail
