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Unaka and the Pisgah

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  • THE UNAKA AND THE PISGAH1 Unaka- “land of the White Mountains” – is a corruption of the Cherokee Indian name for a section of the Southern Appalachians. With the Pisgah, it forms a large unit in the National Forest system and a 237 mile contiguous section of the Appalachian Trail through southeastern Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, extending from New River to the Big Pigeon River, the eastern terminus of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In the Unaka and the Pisgah forests the extremely complex geographical structure of the Southern Appalachian’s is fully apparent. The Southern Appalachian’s are commonly thought of as consisting of the Blue ridge with its adjacent ranges. From its beginning, near the Sustuahanna River, across southern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia to where the Roanoke River cuts across it, the Blue Ridge has been a narrow crest line, trending universally south south-west. Where it rises again, south of the Roanoke River the range forks. The two forks, sometimes fifty miles apart, form an immense oval and come together Again at Springer Mountain in Northern Georgia. Lofty parallel transverse ranges, enclosing beautiful elevated valleys, connect the eastern and western forks. The eastern fork or rim preserves the name Blue Ridge and forms the watershed but is --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The assistance of Paul M. Fink and George Masa in the preparation of geographical and historical material for these notes is gratefully acknowledged.
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