Loss

LOST BECAUSE OF THE NATIONAL PARK
Tax base - about half
Jobs - almost half
Population 5000 - almost half moved from the park
Lumber production - about 3 million board feet daily
Copper mines (two) - about 35% copper and gold
Cemeteries - 31 left there - over 1100 graves
Settlements - at least 35
Churches - 30 lost
Post Offices - 15
Hotel and Boarding houses - 6
Grocery store or Commissary - 25
Schools - 34
Trains Depots - 9
Side Tracks - 15
Ferrys - 4
Hunting Lodges - 4
Doctors - 4
Mid Wife - 14
Hospitals - 2
Acres lost because of Fontana Dam - l,0640 under water
Black Smith shop - 15
Apple Orchards - 5
Grist Mills
Gas Station - 5
Saw Mills - 15
Splash Dams - 4 early 1900's
Barber Shops - 4
Saw Mills - over 15
Dance Hall - Andrews Ball
Southern Rail Road
Mines
Dry Kiln
Planning Mill
Movies House
Barber Shops
Logging Camps
Hunting Lodges
Restaurants

GAS STATIONS:
Pilkey Creek
Hazel Creek
Eagle Creek
Bushnell
Fontana

GRIST MILLS:
Pilkey Creek
Chambers Creek
Way Side Bushnell
Forney
Monteith Branch
Hazel Creek
Noland Creek

SAW MILLS:
Hazel Creek (Taylor & Crate of New York first to operate on Hazel Creek, In 1902 Ritter Lumber Company
Engle Creek Montuale Lumber Company
Twenty Mile Creek
Kitchen Lumber Company
Pilkey Creek Two
Forney Creek Two
Norwood Lumber Company
Bear Creek
Nolan Two
Eagle Creek

DOCTORS:
Dr. Righter
Dr. Righter
Dr. Clark Bushnell
Dr. Welch.

MIDWIFES:
1880-1943
Sarah Kirkland
Tiny Kirkland
Mae Posey.

HOSPITALS:
1940 Fontana

ACRES LOST BECAUSE OF FONTANA DAM 11000 under water 44,170 above water

POST OFFICES:
Fontana
Wayside
Hazel Creek
Medlin
Pilkey Creek
Dorsey
Bushnell
Forney Creek
Noland
Epp Springs
Calhoun Bridge

HOTELS OR BORDING HOUSES
1900-1943
Twenty Mile owner Julie Messer Tipton and her sister Sally Messer Waldrop
Eagle Creek
Proctor
Hazel Creek
Bushnell
Forney Creek
Noland Creek

CHURCHES
1880-1943
Rymers Ferrys
Eagle Creek
Cable Branch
Hazel Creek
Cable Branch
Possum Hollow
Proctor
Calhoun
Camp Sight
Bone Valley late 1880-1934
Sugar Fork
Calhoun Branch
Chamber Creek
Bushnell
Forney Creek
Noland Creek
Epp Springs

MINES:
Sugar Fork
Adams Westfelt Copper Mines Company
Eagle Creek

SCHOOLS:
Rymer's Ferrys
Fontana
Eagle Creek
Hazel Creek6 schools
Calhoun Branch
Pilkey Creek - 2 schools
Bushnell Forney - 2 schools
Noland
Epps Springs
Judson
Almond

STORES:
Eagle Creek
Ritter
Hazel Creek - 6 stores
Calhoun Branch
Wayside Garrett Holloway Hollow
Pilkey Creek
Dorsey
Chamber Creek
Bushnell
Forney Creek
Bear Creek
Peach Tree

TRAIN DEPOTS:
Fontana
Hazel Creek
Bushnell
Forney Creek
Ecola

SIDE TRACKS
Ritter
Wayside
Pilkey Creek
Chamber Creek
Forney Creek
Grave Yard Flats
Hazel Creek

FERRYS:
Ecola
Wayside Rymer's Ferrys

HUNTING LODGE:
Cress Lodge
Bone Valley
Hazel Creek

BLACK SMITHS SHOPS:
Eagle Creek
Hazel Creek
Dorsey- William Henry Calhoun owner
Monteith Branch - David Dave Gunter owner
Forney Creek
William Cole
Noland
Gunter Branch
Pilkey Creek
Hazel Creek
Fontana
Bushnell

APPLE ORCHARDS
Kirkland Branch
Chamber Creek
Bushnell
Grave Yards Flats