Interesting and Little Known Facts About Jackson County

JCGS Vice-President Dick Sellers will recount the story of the first car ever to be driven into Jackson County and it’s famous occupants; share the original Jackson County map from 1851; and the 1926 proposed map of Great Smokies Mountains National Park that if accepted would have made Sylva a gateway to the Park. Also hear about a forgotten trail to take livestock to summer grazing in the mountains along what is now the Blue Ridge Parkway and other little known stories.

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