Finding Aid of the Metz Family Great Smoky Mountains Road Trip Scrapbook, AV.7024
Abstract
This scrapbook chronicles a road trip to the Great Smoky Mountains taken by the Metz
family of St. Louis, Missouri in August 1940. The family included Louis Karl Metz
(1901-1978), his wife Alice Bertha Miller Metz (1909-1990), and their only child David
Louis Metz (1932-2002). The trip coincided with severe floods in east Tennessee and
western North Carolina.
The scrapbook contains a written account of the trip, an account of expenses, photographs,
newspaper clippings, and travel ephemera.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Metz Family Great Smoky Mountains Road Trip Scrapbook
- Call Number
- AV.7024
- Creator
- Metz family
- Date
- 08/12/1940 - 08/17/1940
- Extent
- 0.500 cubic feet
- Repository
- Western Regional Archives, State Archives of North Carolina
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item,] AV.7024, Metz Family Great Smoky Mountains Road Trip Scrapbook, State Archives of North Carolina, Western Regional Archives, Asheville, NC, USA.
Biographical/Historical
On August 12, 1940, the Metz family of St. Louis, Missouri -- Louis Karl Metz (1901-1978),
his wife Alice Bertha Miller Metz (1909-1990), and their only child David Louis Metz
(1932-2002) -- embaked on an automobile trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. Their route
took them through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina with overnight
stays in Asheville, North Carolina and Nasheville, Tennessee. The trip coincided with
severe floods in east Tennessee and western North Carolina. The travel summary written
for each day highlights places visited such as The Hermitage, Grove Park Inn, Cherokee,
North Carolina, Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Clingman's Dome. Several mentions are made
of the catastrophic flooding.