Great Smoky Mountains National Park, NC
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hykesj
N 35° 35.666 W 083° 24.796
17S E 281369 N 3941648
Issued as part of a twenty-stamp tribute to the popular song “America, the Beautiful,” this stamp shows a view of the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina.
Waymark Code: WM12QXF
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 07/04/2020
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On the 4th of July 2018, the U.S. Postal Service issued a set of twenty different stamps commemorating the popular song “America, the Beautiful.” The lyrics of this song were written in 1895 as a poem by Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor from Massachusetts. She was inspired by various sights she had seen during a cross-country trip in the summer of 1893 including a visit to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a climb to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado.
The twenty different stamp designs were arranged in groups of four representing various lines from the song. This particular stamp was part of the group representing “spacious skies” (although the view of the Great Smoky Mountains could also have represented “purple mountain majesties”). It shows the view looking south from the Swinging Bridges south parking area near the Webb Overlook along route 441 (Newfound Gap Road) on the North Carolina side of the national park.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established in 1934 and first appeared on a postage stamp that same year. Another view of the Smoky Mountains was used on an international-rate airmail stamp issued in 2006 as part of the Scenic American Landscape series.
The Webb Overlook was named for North Carolina Senator Charles Webb who, as editor of an Asheville, NC newspaper in the 1930s, was one of a group of citizens from both Tennessee and North Carolina who helped establish the Great Smoky Mountains as a National Park.
Stamp Issuing Country: United States
Date of Issue: 4-Jul-2018
Denomination: (55c)
Color: multicolored
Stamp Type: Single Stamp
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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