Bryson City Essential Info

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Mar-Oct

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Fun Facts

  1. Native Americans have been living and hunting in the vicinity of what is now Bryson City for nearly 14,000 years
  2. In 1889, the people of Charleston changed the city's name to "Bryson City" to acknowledge the many services rendered to the city by Thaddeus Bryson and to eliminate the confusion brought about by sharing a name with Charleston, South Carolina.
  3. The completion of Fontana Dam in 1944 inundated the only highway connecting Bryson City with the remote area of the Smokies known as the North Shore.

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