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Photographer: William Henry Myers III
Taken: July 30, 2012
Caption: Track Rock Gap Marker
Additional Description: Close up of the marker. Some of it is difficult to read. Track Rock Gap The micaceous soapstone rocks bear ancient Indian petroglyphs from which the Gap gets its name. The Cherokees called this place Datsu Nalȃŝ gun yi, (where there are tracks), or Degayeiũnhȃ, (Printed Place). Of the many theories of the origin of the tracks held by the Cherokees, probably the most sensible is that they were made by Indians for their own amusement. Another tradition is that they were made by a great army of birds and animals while the newly created earth’s surface was still soft, to escape pursuing danger from the west – some say a great ‘drive hunt’ of the Indians.
Submitted: September 1, 2014, by William Henry Myers III of Seneca, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p284495
File Size: 1.110 Megabytes

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