The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. The US Board of ...
The renaming caps an effort begun in 2022 by two enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Lavita Hill and ...
The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general GATLINBURG, Tenn.
America’s most visited national park is undergoing a name change. The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, is officially reverting to its ...
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted Wednesday to officially change the name of the highest peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park back to its Cherokee name. The Eastern Band of Cherokee ...
Cassius Cash, superintendent of Great Smoky Mountains National Park for nearly a decade, said he is stepping down from his position. The first Black person to oversee the Smokies park, Cash took over ...
The Flint Gap Fire in the Great Smoky Mountains, sparked by lightning, has reached 46 acres, challenging firefighters due to ...
The federal board on Sept. 18 unanimously approved the renaming of Clingmans Dome, the observation tower-topped mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Eastern Band of the Cherokee ...
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general.
The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. The U.S. Board of Geograph ...