Historical Markers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina
Bryson City is the county seat for Swain County
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is in Swain County
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On Route 441, 0.5 miles north of Blue Ridge Parkway.
For the mountain family, apples were a staple-eaten raw and used to make cider, vinegar, apple sauce, apple butter, and pies. Storing them was important, as evidenced by this substantial apple house. Summer apples were stored on the upper floor; . . . — — Map (db m12754) HM
On Route 441, 0.5 miles north of Blue Ridge Parkway.
This shop was used by the farmer to make repairs to tools or to forge his own ironwork. Iron could be scarce, so a worn-out horseshoe might become part of a door hinge, as you can see here. This blacksmith shop was brought here from Cades Cove, . . . — — Map (db m12818) HM
On Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441), on the left when traveling east.
In Honor of the Civilian Conservation Corps 1933 – 1942 whose hands built roads, trails, bridges, buildings, campgrounds, and picnic areas in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. . . . — — Map (db m58439) HM
On Route 441, 0.5 miles north of Blue Ridge Parkway.
Corn cribs housed the family's most important crop. Corn fed humans and livestock. Families consumed it both fresh and as cornmeal cooked into dishes such as mush and cornbread. After allowing corn to dry on the stalk, farmers stored it on the cob. . . . — — Map (db m12815) HM
Nature forged the Great Smokies, but the hands of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) helped shape the national park we know today. During the 1930s, enrollment peaked as 4,300 men worked here, building roads, campgrounds, trails, and buildings. . . . — — Map (db m99065) HM
On this spot
Horace Kephart - Dean of American Campers
and one of the Principal Founders of the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park -
pitched his last permanent camp. — — Map (db m12751) HM
Near U.S. 441, 1.2 miles north of Blue Ridge Parkway, on the left when traveling north.
For over fifty years the mill you are approaching ground corn into meal and wheat into flour for the mountain community near Mingus Creek. In place of wooden water wheel, a small steel turbine provided power to run the mill's stones and machinery. . . . — — Map (db m43850) HM
On U.S. 441, 0.5 miles north of Blue Ridge Parkway.
Most of the buildings on a mountain farm related
to the most basic of all needs; preserving food.
The historic buildings at the Mountain Farm
Museum were moved here from throughout the
national park in the early 1950s. These buildings
reflect . . . — — Map (db m12747) HM
Sorghum cane, a corp grown on many mountain
farms, was used to produce sorghum molasses.
The cane fed between the rollers of the
animal-powered cane mill, which squeezed out
the juice.The juice was then boiled over the
furnace until it turned . . . — — Map (db m12814) HM
On U.S. 441 at milepost 17,, 2 miles south of Clingman's Dome Road, on the right when traveling south.
Look out across the forested mountains of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The mountains are ancient, but much of the forest is young. Very little is old-growth, or ancient—never cut. But the time the park was established, as much as 80 . . . — — Map (db m99067) HM
On Route 441, 0.5 miles north of Blue Ridge Parkway.
This building protected one of the most valuable commodities on a mountain farm: the meat supply. The most common meat was pork. Without refrigeration, salting and smoking were the most common means of preserving meat and protecting it from insects . . . — — Map (db m12753) HM
