Interview with Wylce McGaha about life in Cataloochee

This 93-page manuscript is titled “Interview with Wylce McGaha.” The 1973 interview is recalls life in Cataloochee. The history was collected as part of the Cataloochee History Project that collected photographs, stories, and oral histories about families who lived in the Cataloochee Valley. Today’s Cataloochee Valley is within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While, in general, the Great Smoky Mountains region was sparsely populated, the Cataloochee Valley remained an exception. By 1900, the population of Cataloochee had grown to 1,000 residents living in hundreds of log and frame homes