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Smokey Mountain Railroad (Part 1)

June 24th, 2009

Visitors to Smoky Mountain National Park can wander miles of trails that meander through endless forests. It wasn’t that long ago that many of these forests had been cut. This is the story of the man who logged much of that timber and then gave the land that is a park today.

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