Thomas Road

Description

This photograph and caption, “The Thomas Road,” appeared in a 1950 of the Asheville Citizen-Times. The original photograph was taken by George Masa in 1930. Photographer George Masa (1881-1933) was active in the Appalachian Trail Club and in the movement to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The trip, recorded in the photograph, was made by Masa and Horace Kephart (1862-1931), a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Details
- Creator
  - Masa, George, 1881-1933
- Contributor
  - Asheville Citizen-Times
- Format
  - Clippings (information artifacts)
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date original: 1950-03-26
  - Date digitized: 2016-03-02
- Extent
  - Dimension: 11" x 8.5"
- Subject - Topic
- Location
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Horace Kephart Collection
- Identifier
  - GSMNP_10184_26_20
- Repository
  - Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Transcript

14 ASHEV1LLE CITIZEN-TIMES. ASHEVILLE, N. C. " Section 4 Sunday, March 26, 1950 THE THOMAS ROAD, first one built across the Great Smokies, is shown in made by George Masa in 1930 near Beech Flats, six miles above Smokemont. was made during a trip by Masa and Horace Kephart, who went in a car to Ne\ and then to Indian Gap, Kephart is sitting in the old Falcon-Knight car.

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