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Masonic shrine at the Black Camp Gap entrance to
the Great Smoky Mountains National Park established by the Grand
Council of Royal and Select Masters in North Carolina at the
location of the Special Summer Assembly. T. Troy Wyche organized the
construction of the monument to commemorate the burying of a
memorial chest in 1937; the visible stones of the marker were sent
from historic or interesting places by Freemasons of the Americas,
Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Isles of the Sea. Construction
was supervised by Oscar L. Briggs, Superintendent of the Water
Department of the Town of Waynesville.