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Weekend Itinerary: Discover Unforgettable Adventure in Canton

Time was, driving I-40 to the Smokies you passed the paper mill town of Canton with nary a thought of stopping. Adventure? There!? Yes, as it turns out, adventure there! Adrenal adventure, wilderness adventure, even underwater adventure.
 

Day 1

Sunburst (P-92)

Model logging village established in 1905. Supplied lumber to WWI effort & Champion paper mill. Flooded by Lake Logan, 1932. Was here.

Inman Chapel (P-90)

Founded 1868. Oldest Universalist church in western N.C. Hannah J. Powell led mission work and school, 1921-42, at site 100 yards south.

Plott Hound (P-87)

State dog. Prized for big game hunting skills. Breed refined in 1800s by Henry Plott & family. Their home 2 mi. SW.

No-Till Farming (P-85)

State's first no-till crop planted in 1962. Method since widely adopted. Field was 300 yards northeast.

Garden Creek (P-83)

Cherokee villages and mounds 1/3 mile west a key site for archaeologists. Occupied from 8000 B.C. to 1600s A.D.

Arnold Guyot 1807-1884 (P-81)

Geographer who measured elevations at sites in western N.C., 1856-1860, including Hominy Creek Gap near here & Mt. Guyot, 25 mi. N.W.

N.C. Education Association (P-58)

Organized in 1884 as N.C. Teachers Assembly in the White Sulphur Springs Hotel. Building was one mile northwest.

Cataloochee Trail (P-51)

Indian path across the mountains used by early settlers and in 1810 by Bishop Francis Asbury. Trail passed nearby.

Cataloochee Trail (P-50)

An old Indian path across mountains used by early settlers and in 1810 by Bishop Asbury. Trail passed nearby.