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The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center is a private non-profit museum located in Townsend, Tennessee, United States, near the city's entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its mission is to preserve the heritage and culture of the inhabitants of the Great Smoky Mountains, including both the region's Native American inhabitants and the pioneers and residents of the region's Appalachian communities. The center was organized in the early 2000s, and officially opened in February 2006. The center houses over of indoor and outdoor exhibits.〔"(Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center Provides Insight Into Appalachian History )," Smoky Mountain Tourism Development Authority (Smokymountains.org), 1 November 2011. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.〕 The outdoor area includes several structures from around the region, including a log cabin, two cantilever barns, an AME Zion chapel, a logging town "setoff" house, a sawmill, and a still once operated by a local moonshiner. The indoor gallery displays tools, furniture and musical instruments used in the mountain region, as well as a sizable collection of Cherokee and other Native American artifacts, some dating to the Archaic period (c. 8000–2000 B.C.). ==History== The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center was conceptualized in the early 2000s by local preservationist and antique collector Richard Way.〔"(Heritage Center Wins Three State Museum Awards )," ''Maryville-Alcoa Daily Times'', 2011. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.〕〔Lance Coleman, "(Seasoned With Fire )," ''Blount Today'', 2 April 2008. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.〕 Early organizational efforts were led by Bob Patterson and several Townsend-area civic organizations.〔"Past Live on for Future," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 8 June 2004.〕 The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center Guild hosted fundraisers for the proposed center in 2004 and 2005.〔"Weathering the Weather," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 12 June 2005.〕 Ground for the new center was broken in the Summer of 2004.〔 The center officially opened February 12, 2006.〔Fred Brown, "(New Facility Would House Mountain Family Artifacts )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 7 November 2010. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.〕 Early displays included Cherokee artifacts and masks representing the seven Cherokee clans, and tools and vehicles used by early pioneers and mountaineers. A mountain medicine exhibit displayed bags and equipment used by Dr. Granville Dexter LeQuire, who practiced in the rural parts of the region during the first half of the 20th century. The center's "Tennessee on the Move" gallery included a small car with a video screen that gave visitors the experience of driving on a mountain road in 1925.〔Amy McRary, "(Townsend's New Heritage Center Highlights Smokies' Long History )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 21 May 2006. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.〕 The center's outdoor displays included the Cardwell Cabin, an 1890s-era hewn log cabin donated to the center by Gatlinburg resident Wilma Maples, one of the center's benefactors.〔Candice Grimm, "Hundreds Flock to Historic Opening of Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center," ''The Mountain Press'', 15 February 2006.〕 In 2008, a moonshine still built and operated by Townsend-area resident Charlie Williams (1905–1992) was donated to the center by Williams' son, Mike.〔Robert Wilson, "(Son of Infamous ET 'Shiner Loans Relic to Smokies Heritage Center )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 1 August 2008. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.〕 In 2010, the Wilders Cemetery Association donated the 100-year-old meeting house of the Wilders Chapel AME Zion Church, which had stood on Amerine Road in Maryville since 1910.〔Robert Wilson, "(Historic Maryville Church Transplanted to Heritage Center )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 20 March 2010. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.〕 The center reported over 75,000 visitors during its first three years of operation.〔"(Smokies Heritage Center Nearing 75,000 Visitors )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 22 November 2008. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.〕 In 2010, the center announced plans to build a new climate-controlled facility to house additional displays and artifacts.〔 In 2011, the Tennessee Association of Museums presented the center and its organizers with three Awards of Excellence.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center is a private non-profit museum located in Townsend, Tennessee, United States, near the city's entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its mission is to preserve the heritage and culture of the inhabitants of the Great Smoky Mountains, including both the region's Native American inhabitants and the pioneers and residents of the region's Appalachian communities. The center was organized in the early 2000s, and officially opened in February 2006.The center houses over of indoor and outdoor exhibits."(Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center Provides Insight Into Appalachian History )," Smoky Mountain Tourism Development Authority (Smokymountains.org), 1 November 2011. Retrieved: 24 January 2014. The outdoor area includes several structures from around the region, including a log cabin, two cantilever barns, an AME Zion chapel, a logging town "setoff" house, a sawmill, and a still once operated by a local moonshiner. The indoor gallery displays tools, furniture and musical instruments used in the mountain region, as well as a sizable collection of Cherokee and other Native American artifacts, some dating to the Archaic period (c. 8000–2000 B.C.). ==History==The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center was conceptualized in the early 2000s by local preservationist and antique collector Richard Way."(Heritage Center Wins Three State Museum Awards )," ''Maryville-Alcoa Daily Times'', 2011. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.Lance Coleman, "(Seasoned With Fire )," ''Blount Today'', 2 April 2008. Retrieved: 24 January 2014. Early organizational efforts were led by Bob Patterson and several Townsend-area civic organizations."Past Live on for Future," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 8 June 2004. The Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center Guild hosted fundraisers for the proposed center in 2004 and 2005."Weathering the Weather," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 12 June 2005. Ground for the new center was broken in the Summer of 2004. The center officially opened February 12, 2006.Fred Brown, "(New Facility Would House Mountain Family Artifacts )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 7 November 2010. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.Early displays included Cherokee artifacts and masks representing the seven Cherokee clans, and tools and vehicles used by early pioneers and mountaineers. A mountain medicine exhibit displayed bags and equipment used by Dr. Granville Dexter LeQuire, who practiced in the rural parts of the region during the first half of the 20th century. The center's "Tennessee on the Move" gallery included a small car with a video screen that gave visitors the experience of driving on a mountain road in 1925.Amy McRary, "(Townsend's New Heritage Center Highlights Smokies' Long History )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 21 May 2006. Retrieved: 24 January 2014. The center's outdoor displays included the Cardwell Cabin, an 1890s-era hewn log cabin donated to the center by Gatlinburg resident Wilma Maples, one of the center's benefactors.Candice Grimm, "Hundreds Flock to Historic Opening of Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center," ''The Mountain Press'', 15 February 2006. In 2008, a moonshine still built and operated by Townsend-area resident Charlie Williams (1905–1992) was donated to the center by Williams' son, Mike.Robert Wilson, "(Son of Infamous ET 'Shiner Loans Relic to Smokies Heritage Center )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 1 August 2008. Retrieved: 24 January 2014. In 2010, the Wilders Cemetery Association donated the 100-year-old meeting house of the Wilders Chapel AME Zion Church, which had stood on Amerine Road in Maryville since 1910.Robert Wilson, "(Historic Maryville Church Transplanted to Heritage Center )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 20 March 2010. Retrieved: 24 January 2014.The center reported over 75,000 visitors during its first three years of operation."(Smokies Heritage Center Nearing 75,000 Visitors )," ''Knoxville News Sentinel'', 22 November 2008. Retrieved: 24 January 2014. In 2010, the center announced plans to build a new climate-controlled facility to house additional displays and artifacts. In 2011, the Tennessee Association of Museums presented the center and its organizers with three Awards of Excellence.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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