Photographs courtesy of the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park Service
Other memorials were created
for those tireless and dedicated individuals who gave freely of
their time and efforts to create the Park. Some of the highest
peaks in the Park are named for these individuals. For the pioneers
of the idea, Mt. Davis and Davis Ridge were named for Mr. and
Mrs. Willis P. Davis. For Colonel David C. Chapman (photo, right)
,-who accepted the idea from the Davis' and helped get financial
support from the Rockefellers, we now have Mt. Chapman. Mt. Kephart
is named for Horace Kephart, who quit as a librarian and lived
for years among the Smoky Mountains people (and wrote about them
in Our Southern Highlanders).
Mt. Cammerer was named for Arno
B. Cammerer, a director of the National Park Service.
Maloney Point and the Morton
and Webb Overlooks were also named for individuals who accomplished
much in the success of making the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park.
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