Last Train to Elkmont - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last Train to Elkmont write by Vic Weals. This book was released on 1993. Last Train to Elkmont available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lost Elkmont
Lost Elkmont - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Elkmont write by Daniel L. Paulin. This book was released on 2015. Lost Elkmont available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of Elkmont from small logging community to exclusive summer resort and GSMNP site. Prior to the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) in 1934, the small community of Elkmont was established as a logging camp by Col. Wilson B. Townsend's Little River Lumber Company around 1908. This was after he purchased 86,000 acres of mostly virgin forest. The area that was previously inhabited by various American Indian groups, and later by European-American settlers beginning around 1830, was to become for a time the second largest town in Sevier County, Tennessee. Colonel Townsend's business ventures proved successful beyond expectation, as he skillfully exploited the area's valuable hardwood forests. His logging company and railroad provided a mountain population with jobs and steady wages. Once all the valuable timber was harvested, Townsend sold land to private citizens who established what was to become an exclusive summer community that included both the Appalachian and Wonderland Clubs. These coexisted inside the GSMNP until 1992. This is the story of Elkmont.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.P.), Elkmont Historic District
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.P.), Elkmont Historic District - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.P.), Elkmont Historic District write by . This book was released on 2009. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.P.), Elkmont Historic District available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Smoky Mountains National Park write by United States. National Park Service. This book was released on 2016. Great Smoky Mountains National Park available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby
Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby write by F. Carroll McMahan. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Elkmont's Uncle Lem Ownby available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Enter the forest with author F. Carroll McMahan as he tells dramatic, fascinating and sometimes humorous stories of a man who lived truly on his own terms. Born in 1889 in the Smoky Mountains, Lem Ownby became one of the region's most recognized figures. Sight-impaired from an early age, Lem spent his life logging, bear hunting, farming and tending his beehives. He welcomed the arrival of logging operations into the pristine wilderness but became an eyewitness to the devastation it brought to land, streams and wildlife. As the last leaseholder living within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Lem became a legend, selling his honey and offering pearls of wisdom to hikers, writers and even the governor. Lem's principles remained solid, his opinions so unwavering that he once refused to entertain two Supreme Court justices.
