Taking Shelter in a Chestnut Tree
Description:
Members of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club enjoying the big chestnut tree stop, March 5, 1932. Before the Chestnut Blight wiped out almost all American Chestnut trees in the Eastern United States, trees of this size were not uncommon along the Appalachian Trail.
Date:
03/05/1932
Creator:
Albert Gordon (Dutch) Roth, 1890-1974
Subject
American ChestnutContributor
Mills KellyFormat
Black and white photographSource:
Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project, The University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville Tennessee
Tags
Rights
Copyright (c) 2003. The University of Tennessee Libraries. All Rights Reserved.Citation
Albert Gordon (Dutch) Roth, 1890-1974, “Taking Shelter in a Chestnut Tree,” Appalachian Trail Histories, accessed November 6, 2024, https://appalachiantrailhistory.org/items/show/452.
Geolocation
