Great Smoky Mountains

… are a part of the Appalachian Mountains, which see, and lie along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line. Clingmans Dome, at 6,642 ft., is the highest peak. The first written reference to the name Smoky is probably that found in the act of cession, passed in 1789 by the General Assembly of North Carolina, which, in describing the boundary of North Carolina and what is now Tennessee, stated: "thence along the highest ridge of the said mountain to the place where it is called Great Iron or Smoky Mountain." See also Bald Mountains.