A Little History: Or
How the Smoky Mountains
Became a National Park
Photographs courtesy of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Service
Key Contributors
Other memorials were created for those
tireless and dedicated individuals who gave freely of their time and
efforts to create the Park. Some of the highest peaks in the Park are
named for these individuals. For the pioneers
of
the idea, Mount. Davis and Davis Ridge were named for Mr. and Mrs. Willis
P. Davis. For Colonel David C. Chapman (photo, right) ,-who accepted
the idea from the Davis' and helped get financial support from the Rockefellers,
we now have Mount Chapman. Mount Kephart is named for Horace Kephart,
who quit as a librarian and lived for years among the Smoky Mountains
people (and wrote about them in Our Southern Highlanders).
Mt. Cammerer was named for Arno B. Cammerer, a director of the National Park Service.
Maloney Point and the Morton and Webb Overlooks were also named for individuals who accomplished much in the success of making the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
