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Thursday, July 14, 193?
fEnticemc
HALF-HOUR IS
DEVOTED OVER
STATION WNOX
Knoxville Manufacturer
Arranges Program; Local
Musicians Attend
O last. Thursday morning Murphy
and surrounding territory were given
quite a boost by Billy Cole, advertising
manager of the F. K. I'uxton
company, ol" Knoxvill . makers of portab
raisins. when he devoted one of
the s.*ries of 10 half-hour "Appalachia.'i
B: - programs ?ver WNOX.
K: '.xvillej Tenn . t?> Murphy
Mr. Col.* informed the Scout that J
inquires from person - move than 100 I
miles had been received almost before j
the program went off the air.
Appearing on th. program were |
ft hf string band led by Glenn El.is <>t
( ullu'ison and th<- Valley River Quart.tt.v
Winn?- - <if tin* t?-n AppakuIiia::
llrccz s programs will bo compete
jr. the tonth. eleventh and twelfth
programs to he given over the sta
the last week in August and the
Mr. Cole reported that he was very
impressed with th Cherokee county 1
delega? son and that the program de- <
voted to Murphy and surrounding <
i ritoj y was one of tho most su e?-s>
fui ol the series before. '
Mr Cole's talk was as follows: '
Today we visit a little city enshrin. :
ed in the very heart of the old ('hero. | '
k - - nation It is surrounded closely
i ?t ill -i.ies by thf most varied pan- '
ora:?ia that one can imagine. There!1'
y-.hing from the Carolina Blue ''
Ridg and Tenness a* Smokies, to the "
p.t t lik'* Tel.ico Plains. There is s
lake Saiiteetlah, bluer than the Chesa.
peak ; mii there is ('upper Basin. '
garish and like the I'aillted Desert (
Wo ommond for your week-end
;.<iv. i i sumtncr's vacation, this j y
!i i ity. Murphy -western-most
in Noj t.ii Carolina- j j1
1 11' ?i y of Murphy i- downright j
? han'mg. It begins about 150 !
\t;u > ago when the first white man j
cam-.- se* le among the proud J..
Ciu -ikci's. This man's name was
\ . y long?Archibald Russell Spence
Hunter." Alone, he made his peril- ej
- us way into the stronghold of the a
Cherokee.;, until he came to the fork C
of Hiwassee and Vail -y Rivers. This
l'oj k. vi. wed from the gigantic biue
balds that hove* over r. r? semble
a wild turkey's track. It was known
1 y the Cheioke -> as the Turke.'.Track.
It w.s the hirt.hplace of the
i i < at chief, lunnluska. Ai ehihal-i
Hunter a lading posi on the
Turkey's i . tel. and soon after inFin
'-vd i.i- i: and family *,o the post,
i etariv* ! ?n?wn as Huntington.
A' - btiUi 1 i i" ...u.st have bee ,
i!i. Indians.
: ! . aiiuslai
in- fik'.iowers and left his
.' . drew J:?ck
' i.aska gained u: dying
s.tving the lit" of
Battle of Horse Shoe
1. -nd
.
Regrets Action
e
-.amy enougn, it. IS saul UhlC't J Ull- |
aluska regretted the deed afterwardWhen
Jackson became president he
.-.ssigned the General Winfield Scott
to round up the entire Cherokee tribe
and transport them to a strange reservation
in far away Oklahoma. Bitterly
Junaluska saw his people corrailed
like cattle, and of all places,
they were herded together on his
very birthplace, the Turkey's Track.
Junaluska is one of the few Indians
who never was caught.
Romance bloomed on the Turkey's
Track with the coming of Gen. Scott.
Not long after he established Fort
Hunter, Scott lost his army surgeon
10 the charms of Archibald Hunters'
daughter. The surgeon's name was
Dr. Hitchcock, and he married Miss
Hunter They built a cabin on the
Hiwassee bank, where they lived long
after the Cherokee? were driven on
their westward trek, never to return.
The Hunters moved into the
cabin with the Hitchcocks, where they
remained until they died and were
buried near the center of the Tur- t
key's Track. |
Soor, afterward, the Hitchcocks,
were lured to California by the gold
rush- And like in a fairy story, they
".ent there and became fabulously
|
5 I he Chert
mts of M
Y-i! - . a :r:t*? a >i caiK . Into
half a 1'ntury. A; tl in the moan
im on iho fork of Hiwassee and
Valley Rivers. old Fort Butler
rumbled into the ruins of tlmo and
.ost glory. Th trading post of Huntington
grow as the years passed. . . .
until at last, with amazing foresight,
i was decided to put Huntington on
the map. The town was laid out in
streets almost as wide as they were
long; and th town was like a wheel,
with ight broad streets centering I
around an eight-sided square. And
the name of the town was changed to
Murphy.
One hundred years after the death
of Archibald Hunter, his great-granddaughter
saw the pyramids in Egypt, '
and was struck hy a magnificent inspiration.
She decided to erect a
pyramid over their grav s, which
were now situated in the city limi s
"t Murphy She returned and wil ed
$10,000 for the ejection of a white'
marble pyramid 25 feet hijrh and 15 j
feet square at its base. Unfortunately I
shL. died one year before it was un. ;
veiled in a M emorial e. Iebration in j
lih'H).
Today it stands overlooking the
own antj the two romantic rivers.
And it seems to whisper silently of the
miracle "f change which th soon
rears are bringing.
Surroundings of Murphy
If Murphy was the axi. of a
.vheel. you would not have to go (
arther than twenty or thirty miles in .
?ny direction to find the most varied
:.nd startling panorama than one can ,
magine. Located right where the
due Ridges and Smokies best get ^
aquainted. near the corner of three *
;tat?-s ami neater the capitols of
rvi'i. i.thcr states than it is its own.
hi the I'lwm ltill Highway at d a
umber of other I'. S- roads, the outi
ts of Murphy are iike the spokes
f a wheel. We might start on that
poke which 1 ads to the Xantahnla
orest. The Forest is curved like a
inger around the lower base of the j
I rout Smoky I'aik. bordered on one j
id by Santeetlah Lake. One of the |
i eatest tributes to tile exquisiU !
eauly of this spot, is the fact that |
earby is heated the Joyce Kilniei J
ore>t Dedicat <1 11? the memory j
i *(Kiat be.oved poet, no spot anywhere
>uld be found that so truly interpreti
tile oiq. and only poem call, d
T rces'b
in the heart of the Xantahnhi P..; 1
is tin* i aunit"ir? nt (Jorge, so de p 11
ml vast that even i's name, in the?I
herokee language means "Land of!
w<f/iA^y//
WiTH ftl?
new alii
Saves Kore nc
B m*
>kee ?>cout. Murphy, INort
urphy A.i
hi- Noonday Sun". Shadows of cloud
awl slow.y down and slowly up the
' othet brim, while onlookers snap
j camera shots of them. So l'ar below
hat only the image creates the sound,
he river roars down a long long sue|
v cssion of falls. beginning where the
'liver seeps from the brow of the
' farthest ridge.
Another scene looming on the very
I threshold of Murphy, is the beginning
of gigantic Hiwassee dam. It will
be 306 feet high and 1250 feet long,
mightier dam than Morris, and the
third largest in the United States.
Hiwassee Dam is the biggest projec
of the TV A- Fed by hundreds of
>treams from the Blue Ridge and
Smoky ranges, this dam will fill up
the lower end of the Appadachian
Mountains.
It will be entirely surrounded by
that range dividing the Blue Ridges
and th Smokies. It will raise the
waters of Hiwassee and Valley Rivers
eight feet on either fork about Murphy.
and Murphy wi 1 he the only city
actually on Hiwassee Lake. It will
be a great day for Murphy.
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wup|/t-i uasin uaris 11
A little further round the wheel,
swinging westward, one conies upon
third startling spectacle, the Copper j
Rasin. As one surmounts a high rim
of thickly wooded mountains, h_* is
instant y tr?"?nortec' ??to a country
entirely different and amazing. Tlie
Liees have deminished to scrub oak
ind vegetation has almost vanished
The horizon looms of bl . eding hills,
it red and yellow and purplish tones,
ill garnish and hideous, and ruined
"or the next thousand years by the
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' |>t oci'.n> of erosion. As one continues,
the aspects of life completely vanish
except for here ami there the dismal
dwellings of minors crouched above
. black smudges of the copper 'mints.
Located in the midst of this desert is
! Copperhill and the sulphuric plant.
Across the Ocoae River is the state of
Georgia.
Wh.n the copper mines were first
opened, the ore was smelted, as the
natives say by "roasting it on the
ground". Sulphuric acid, a by-pro.
duct, was given off into the air, killing
vegetation.
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such things as the art# and sr.. j
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