UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Last stamp in a set of 3, issued on 08.10.1934.
Face value: 10 cents.
Printing: Recess.
Print: 18,874,300 copies.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 373.
- Scott No. 749.
- StampWorld No. 590.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 748.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 337.

The Great Smoky Mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountains. Its highest peak is the Clingmans Dome, with a height of 2,025 m (6,643 ft); they stretch along the Tennessee-North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. On June 15, 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation establishing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: the park covers 2,114.15 km² (816.28 sq mi) and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Native Americans probably hunted in those mountains 14,000 years ago. Hernandode Soto and Juan Pardo are supposed to have been the first Europeans to visit the Smokies, in 1540 and 1567 respectively. Europeans began to explore the region in the mid-18th century. After the French and Indian War (1754-63), tensions developed between the native Cherokee and the arriving white explorers. In the early 1800s, the Cherokee ceded control of the Smokies to the US government.