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Title Cherokees To Build Tourist Hotel, Shops (Page 1 of 2)
Date November 13, 1934
Description Article reporting on Cherokee plans to build a new hotel/shopping/tourist complex on the reservation. $50,000 allocated for the project has come from federal money, and is part of reservation superintendent Harold Foght's plans to bring the New Deal to the Cherokee reservation. The complex hopes to harness increased tourist traffic in the area thanks to the proximity of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park.

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Location Location Name: Cherokee
Parkway Milepost: None
Latitude: 35.4742656
Longitude: -83.3148742
Creator Organization Asheville Citizen Times
Tags Cherokee (N.C.)
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina
Foght, Harold W.
Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.)
Credit North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill