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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

George Grant accompanied a survey team to the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1931. Leading the team was J. Ross Eakin, superintendent of Glacier National Park, who would become first superintendent of Great Smoky Mountains.
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The forest from Newfound Gap Highway; Mount LeConte in the distance. Part of the Transmountain Highway at right.
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The forest from Newfound Gap Highway; Mount LeConte in the distance. Part of the Transmountain Highway at right.

GSMNP

  • Little Greenbrier Schoolhouse, planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • View south over the mountains of North Carolina from Cove Creek Gap, north of Waynesville, North Carolina. Taken from Great Smoky Mountains boundary. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • The summit of Newfound Gap Highway at the Tennessee - North Carolina state line. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Looking up Newfound Gap Highway showing rock outcroppings, south of Indian Gap Hotel. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Looking down Newfound Gap Highway; planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Survey team with park superintendent Ross Eakins on far right. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Overhanging cliff along the highway between Townsend and Gatlinburg. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • View down the valley of the Little Pigeon River from Newfound Gap Highway. Indian Gap Hotel is in the middle distance. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Catstairs Mountain as seen from the slopes above Porters Flats, Tennessee. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • The ridge west of Mount Sterling from Cove Creek Gap. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • The forest from Newfound Gap Highway; Mount LeConte in the distance. Part of the Transmountain Highway at right.
  • Aunt Sophie and Uncle Tom Campbell are seated on the front porch of their rustic log cabin near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • North Cove, North Carolina, from Cemetery Ridge on Upper Ravensford. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Overhanging cliff on the highway between Townsend and Gatlinburg. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • View of Fightin' Creek Valley and Mount LeConte from summit between Elkmont and Gatlinburg. The view is said to the greatest difference in elevation in the eastern United States between 2 places in horizontal distance. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Two old muzzle loading rifles belonging to Mr. John Olezer in Cades Cove. The lower is an old flintlock. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Old smoke house door of John Palmer in Cataloochee. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Silas Bracken's mill below Indian Gap Hotel from the creek showing sluice power wheel and shaft below. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Aunt Sophie Campbell on porch of her home near Gatlinburg. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
  • Footbridge across Little Pigeon River near Townsend, Tennessee. Planned Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1931.
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