Lake Junaluska

by Shelia Hunt

Title

Lake Junaluska

Artist

Shelia Hunt

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Photograph - Photograph

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Lake Junaluska with its Memorial Chapel in Haywood County, North Carolina, with a beautiful reflection in the lake…

In 1945, President Harry Truman wrote a letter to the President of the Lake Junaluska Cottage Owners Association, Dr. Elmer T. Clark, stating, “It seems to me particularly fitting that you are erecting on the assembly grounds at Lake Junaluska in North Carolina a Memorial Chapel in honor of the Methodist youth from the southern states who served in the armed forces.”

In 1944, the Lake Junaluska Cottage Owners’ Association started a movement to raise funds for a war memorial chapel that would be “A Temple of Peace, erected in the name of the Price of Peace, in honor of those who served in the armed forces of our country in World War II.” Over the course of ten years, funds were raised and this beautiful chapel was built.

Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lake Junaluska was named after Chief Junaluska, a Cherokee leader in the early nineteenth century. The lake is fed from Richland Creek, a tributary to the Pigeon River. Before the 1839 Indian Removal, this area was part of the homelands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, the only federally recognized tribe in the State of North Carolina.

Thank you for viewing my gallery. I hope you will find my artwork worthy of hanging in your home or office, and trust you will enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed presenting it to you.


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©Copyright 2021 Shelia Steele Hunt. All Rights Reserved. This artwork is copyrighted to Shelia Steele Hunt and, as such, is protected by US and International Copyright laws. Image may not be copied or reproduced for any reason without the express written permission of the artist.

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