Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is located in the western part of Graham County on the North Carolina-Tennessee border. In 1936 the National Forest Service purchased the 13,055 acres that was some of the last tracts of virgin hardwood left in the original Appalachian forest. Joyce Kilmer was a solider and a poet. His most famous poem was “Trees”—“I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree”. He was killed in France in World War I and the Veterans of Foreign Wars ask the government to set aside a stand of trees to serve as a memorial to Joyce Kilmer. |
