Editing Gatlinburg, Tennessee (section)

===Early 20th century===
In the 1880s, the invention of the bandsaw and the logging railroad led to a boom in the lumber industry. As forests throughout the Southeastern United States were harvested, lumber companies pushed deeper into the mountain areas of the Appalachian highlands. In 1901, Colonel W.B. Townsend established the Little River Lumber Company in [[Tuckaleechee Cove]] to the west, and lumber interests began buying up logging rights to vast tracts of forest in the Smokies.<ref>Frome, pp. 165–166.</ref>

Andrew Jackson Huff (1878–1949), originally of [[Greene County, Tennessee|Greene County]], was a pivotal figure in Gatlinburg at this time. Huff erected a sawmill in Gatlinburg in 1900,<ref>Frome, pg. 161.</ref> and local residents began supplementing their income by providing lodging to loggers and other lumber company officials.<ref name="Abramson, 644"/> Tourists also began to trickle into the area, drawn to the Smokies by the writings of authors such as Mary Noailles Murfree and [[Horace Kephart]], who wrote extensively about the region's natural wonders.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

In 1912, the [[Pi Beta Phi]] women's fraternity established a [[settlement school]] (now [[Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts]]) in Gatlinburg after a survey of the region found the town to be most in need of educational facilities in the area.<ref>Pearl Cashell Jackson, ''Pi Beta Phi Settlement School'' (University of Texas, 1927), pg. 14.</ref> Although skeptical locals were initially worried that the fraternity might be religious propagandists or opportunists, the school's enrollment grew from 33 to 134 in its first year of operation.<ref>Jackson, pp. 11, 39.</ref> Along with providing basic education to children in the area, the school's staff created a small market for local crafts.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Isolation in the region attracted folklorists such as [[Cecil Sharp]] of [[London]] to the area in the years following [[World War I]].<ref>Bishop, pp. 32–35</ref> Sharp's collection of Appalachian ballads was published in 1932.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}