For reference, here's how we used to do things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataloochee_(Great_Smoky_Mountains) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataloochee_(Gr

For reference, here's how we used to do things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataloochee_(Great_Smoky_Mountains) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataloochee_(Great_Smoky_Mount... >In the 1920s, the increase in tourism and the destructive effects of logging gave rise to a movement to create a national park in the Smokies. For this to happen, the residents living in the proposed park boundaries would either have to sell their land or be forced out via eminent domain. In 1928, Reverend Pat Davis broke the news to the residents of Cataloochee at Palmer's Chapel, telling them the valley was within proposed park boundaries and that they would be forced to sell. Hattie Caldwell Davis, who was at the meeting, recalled women crying and men threatening to dynamite the roads and shoot anyone who tried to enter. Some men had the idea of blocking Cove Creek Gap so the government representatives would have to come in from the Tennessee side, where Mount Sterling residents would surely stop them.