Clingmans Dome no more: Cherokee name for Great Smoky Mountains' highest peak restored
Kuwohi, which translates to “mulberry place” in Cherokee, replaces Clingmans Dome, a name that honored Thomas Clingman, an expelled U.S. senator-turned-Confederate brigadier general who, as a lawyer, defended settlers’ claims on Cherokee land. Clingman is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Asheville.
The peak became known as Clingmans Dome following an 1859 survey by geographer Arnold Guyot, who named it for Thomas Lanier ...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, is America’s most visited national park, and Kuwohi is one its most popular sites, with more than 650,000 visitors ...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash is leaving the National Park Service. He has been chosen as ...
The U.S. Board of Geographic Names has approved a formal request submitted by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to change ...
The federal board on Sept. 18 unanimously approved the renaming of Clingmans Dome, the observation tower-topped mountain ...
"His family said it's about time," Crowe said. Crowe also said she hopes locals and tourists feel a spiritual connection in ...
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