Cherokee Creek, crossing the head of Buck Creek and running down Sinking Creek to a point approximately 1 mile due south of the center of Johnson City, where a road turns off southeast; thence southeasterly with the meanders of the last-named road to its junction with U. S. Highway No. 23; thence southerly with the meanders of Highway No. 23, approximately 2½ miles to a road fork; thence northeasterly with the meanders of the road which forms the most direct route to Valley Forge on the Doe River; thence northeasterly and northerly with the meanders of the said road, crossing the Watauga River at Siam, to Hunter Station; thence in a northerly and general westerly direction with the meanders of road along south foot of Holston Mountain, to the point where it crosses the railraod[1] between Elizabethton and Bluff City, approximately 2½ miles north of Elizabethton; thence northwesterly with the meanders of said railroad to Elkanah; thence northeasterly and northerly with the meanders of the road which passes Chincapin Grove Church, to a sharp bend in the South Fork of the Holston River; thence northeasterly with the meanders of the road up Holston River, passing Island Mills and Hemlock, to the south end of the bridge across Holston River at Central Holston Church; thence in a general northeasterly direction up and with the meanders of the left bank of the South Fork of Holston River to intersection with the Tennessee-Virginia State Line; thence easterly with the Tennessee-Virginia State Line to the point on Pond Mountain which is the common corner of the states of Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina; thence southerly with the Tennessee-North Carolina State line about 3½ miles to Forest Service Monument 1244 corner to tract 137e of the United States; thence with the lines of said tract 137e northeasterly then southerly then northwesterly to corner 4 thereof in Cut-Laurel Gap on the State line; thence southerly with the Tennessee-North Carolina State line to a point in Payne's Gap at intersection with a public road; thence, southwesterly with the meanders of the road leading down Forge Creek, to its junction with U. S. Highway No. 421, near the point where Forge Creek empties into Roan Creek; thence southerly, with the meanders of U. S. Highway No. 421, to a road fork about ½ mile south of Evergreen Church near mouth of Lucinda Creek; thence southwesterly with the meanders of a public road leading up Lucinda Creek, a large tributary of Roan Creek, to the Tennessee-North Carolina State Line on top of the mountain; thence, in a general southwesterly direction with the Tennessee-North Carolina State Line to the place of beginning, excluding from the above-described land, however, all land within the corporate limits of the towns of Mountain City and Erwin, Tennessee.
The boundaries of the Cherokee National Forest are graphically shown on the diagram attached hereto and made a part hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 8" day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six and of the Inde- [SEAL] pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-first.
By the President:
Cordell Hull
Secretary of State.
- ↑ So in original
