Historical Markers and War Memorials in Newfound Gap
Newfound Gap, Tennessee and Vicinity
▶ Sevier County(75) ▶ Blount County(43) ▶ Cocke County(15) ▶ Jefferson County(23) ▶ Knox County(149) ▶ Haywood County, North Carolina(34) ▶ Swain County, North Carolina(60)
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Near Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441) north of Clingman's Dome Road, on the right when traveling north.
Few places in North America sustain a greater variety of life than the Great Smoky Mountains. The forests, streams, and meadows here support more than 100 types of native trees, some 50 kinds of fish, some 1,500 flowering plants, more than 240 bird . . . — — Map (db m58920) HM
On Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441) 0.8 miles north of Clingmans Dome Road, on the left when traveling north.
I do not . . . favor the scarring of a wonderful mountainside just so we can say we have a skyline drive. It sounds poetical, but it may be an atrocity. Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, 1935 It’s not easy to travel through the . . . — — Map (db m58919) HM
On Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441) near Clingman's Dome Road, on the left when traveling south.
For the permanent enjoyment of the people. This park was given one-half by the peoples and states of North Carolina and Tennessee and by the United States of America, and one-half in memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller by the Laura Spelman . . . — — Map (db m3268) HM
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