User:Mattise135/draft Walls of Jericho (natural area)

The Walls of Jericho refers to Natural Areas in both Tennessee and Alabama. 750 acres (300 ha) in Tennessee and 13,045 acres (5,279 ha) in Alabama are protected. The Walls of Jericho is also the name of a box canyon located there. Turkey Creek flows over the Falls of Jericho at the top of this canyon, and disappears in a pool. The water emerges from a cave several hundred feet down the canyon and flows across a large bowl shaped amphitheater. These features are in Tennessee but are only accessible from the lower portion of the canyon in Alabama.

Hurricane Creek

Paint Rock River

Geography/Geology

Cumberland Plateau

History

Early History

Legend says that Davy Crockett hunted in this area.^[1] He moved his wife and three children to Franklin County, Tennessee in 1813, after wild game became scarce in Moore County, Tennessee.^[2] He built a new settlement on Beans Creek named "Kentuck."^[3] He lived there until 1817 and hunted in the area. The Cherokee ceded the area (both Tennesse and Alabama) in Calhoun Treaty of February 1819 ^[4]

a circuit-riding minister www.jacksoncountychamber.com

The valley bottoms were farmed and inhabitants were buried in the Clark Cemetery.^{[citation needed]} Texas oil magnate Harry Lee Carter acquired 60,000 acres (24,000 ha) in the 1940s.^[5] The area was open to the public until his death in 1977.

Natural Area

The Walls of Jericho were initially nominated for purchase by the State of Alabama when Forever Wild (link) was formed in 1993, but the land owners were not interested in selling at the time.^[6]

In 2002, word came that the Mead Corporation was selling all of its land holdings in Tennessee and Alabama.

The Nature Conservancy 21,453, closed in December 2003 for $13,944,168, from walls-of-jericho.xml
Alabama 12,510, February 26, 2004
Tennessee, a 750-acre natural area that is within the 8,943-acre Bear Hollow Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA),
Alabama 537 May 28,2010 ^[7]
add 2,125 in Alabama

Features

WoJ

Blowhole

Wildflowers

Rare plant/animals

Clark Cemetery

Activities

Camping and Hiking horse caving equestrian trails campground

Alabama Trailhead
- Alabama to creek
- Creek to WoJ
- Bear Den Point Loop (4.7 miles) east of the hwy
Tennessee Trailhead
- Tennessee Mill Creek Loop
- Side trail to blowhole
- 1 mile loop
- South Rim Trail
Horse Trails
- Alabama
- Tennessee

Also See

The Nature Conservancy

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

Forever Wild (Alabama)

References

^ "Tennessee - The Walls of Jericho". The Nature Conservancy. Retrieved 26 April 2011. Visit a forested canyon on the Tennessee-Alabama state line where Davy Crockett once hunted.
^ "Crockett Homestead Historical Marker". Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 25 April 2011. Inscription: One mile south, on south side of East Branch of Mulberry Creek, David Crockett built a log house in which he lived from 1811 to 1813. While here he hunted, and cleared a field three miles northwest on "Hungry Hill." When bears and other game became scarce, he moved to better hunting grounds in Franklin County.
^ "Davy Crockett". Explorers, Pioneers, and Frontiersmen, 1786 - 1836. Florence, Oregon: Online Highways. Retrieved 25 April 2011. In 1811, Crockett took his family to the south side of Mulberry Creek, near Lynchburg. He built a log cabin where they lived for the following two years. The Crocketts then moved to Franklin County in 1813, owing to a depletion of wild game. The new settlement in Franklin County was named "Kentuck."
^ Kappler, Charles J. (1904). "Treaty with the Cherokee, 1819". Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Vol. Volume II (Treaties, 1778-1883). Washington: Government Printing Office. pp. 177–181. Retrieved 12 April 2011. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
^ "Tennessee - The Walls of Jericho". The Nature Conservancy. Retrieved 26 April 2011. The Walls of Jericho area was originally owned by the Texas oil magnate Harry Lee Carter, who acquired 60,000 acres in Franklin County, Tenn., and Jackson County, Ala., in the 1940s. For years, up until 1977 when the Walls of Jericho were closed to the public, the Tennessee property had been open to the public for recreational use and managed by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
^ Lein, Gregory M., (October 2005), "The Walls of Jericho Land of Wood, Rock, and Water", Outdoor Alabama, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, retrieved 26 April 2011 {{citation}}: Text "pages 16–18" ignored (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "76. Walls of Jericho Sims, Swaim, and Johnson Addition". Forever Wild Program Land Tracts. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 25 April 2011.

External Links

Nature Conservancy

AL Forever Wild

AL Forever Wild – Walls of Jericho Tracts

TN TWRA

Jackson County Chamber of Commerce

Map of Tennessee Indian Treaties The 1819 Calhoun Treaty purchased land between the Little Tennessee and the Hiwassee Rivers from the Cherokees.

[1] "Tennessee - The Walls of Jericho". The Nature Conservancy. Retrieved 26 April 2011. Visit a forested canyon on the Tennessee-Alabama state line where Davy Crockett once hunted.

[2] "Crockett Homestead Historical Marker". Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 25 April 2011. Inscription: One mile south, on south side of East Branch of Mulberry Creek, David Crockett built a log house in which he lived from 1811 to 1813. While here he hunted, and cleared a field three miles northwest on "Hungry Hill." When bears and other game became scarce, he moved to better hunting grounds in Franklin County.

[3] "Davy Crockett". Explorers, Pioneers, and Frontiersmen, 1786 - 1836. Florence, Oregon: Online Highways. Retrieved 25 April 2011. In 1811, Crockett took his family to the south side of Mulberry Creek, near Lynchburg. He built a log cabin where they lived for the following two years. The Crocketts then moved to Franklin County in 1813, owing to a depletion of wild game. The new settlement in Franklin County was named "Kentuck."

[4] Kappler, Charles J. (1904). "Treaty with the Cherokee, 1819". Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Vol. Volume II (Treaties, 1778-1883). Washington: Government Printing Office. pp. 177–181. Retrieved 12 April 2011. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

[5] "Tennessee - The Walls of Jericho". The Nature Conservancy. Retrieved 26 April 2011. The Walls of Jericho area was originally owned by the Texas oil magnate Harry Lee Carter, who acquired 60,000 acres in Franklin County, Tenn., and Jackson County, Ala., in the 1940s. For years, up until 1977 when the Walls of Jericho were closed to the public, the Tennessee property had been open to the public for recreational use and managed by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

[6] Lein, Gregory M., (October 2005), "The Walls of Jericho Land of Wood, Rock, and Water", Outdoor Alabama, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, retrieved 26 April 2011 {{citation}}: Text "pages 16–18" ignored (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[7] "76. Walls of Jericho Sims, Swaim, and Johnson Addition". Forever Wild Program Land Tracts. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Retrieved 25 April 2011.

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