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Why is Sunshine Named Sunshine?
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Sure, it's pretty obvious why Sunshine is named Sunshine. But if you had any lingering doubts, this small section of topo map should pound it in pretty good if you have a look at it. The rapid called Sunshine is one topographic click south from the confluence of Pulliam Creek and the Green River, and the contour interval is 20ft. on this map. The Narrows as a run is said to be 2.88 miles long. Although no actual scale is shown above as I had to leave that part off the map, from the county line to Pulliam Creek is very close to 1/3 of a mile according to my ruler. For a reference, a viewing of the Polk County GIS aerial photo shows the county line to be crossing the Green exactly where the log is in Go Left. After another small stretch down from Sunshine the map shows the river splitting with an island in the middle. That upper channel is a dry stretch of riverbed now, beginning around the rapid "Triple Cracks" (also, the Green River Cove Trail heads downstream from here, on river left. See the Groove Tube rapid description for a link to the trail map). Another one of those dry channels begins at Frankenstein on river left, but it didn't make it on this map. Big Hungry Creek pays tribute to El Rio Verde at the beginning of the run, as shown in the top left. After the first long stretch of shoals downstream of Sunshine, it's Camp Creek that comes in from river right as the river bends to the left. To see the whole map, go to this Libre Map Project page for North Carolina, scroll down and open the "Cliffield Mountain" quad map as a TIFF file. Below is a neat old (but undated) map taken from a UNCA archival website called Speculation Lands, and covering much of the same area. I don't know what forensics would really narrow down the date too much. This map was drawn well before Route 26 went in, clearly, when the option was "Howard's Gap Road" (sic), and when it was called "Pullum's Creek" (sic.. heh-heh), and before Lake Summit was created by building the dam (~1921?). But it was drawn after what? Polk County was chopped out of Rutherford County in 1855, but the county names aren't shown below. The railroad tracks, at the top of the famously steep Saluda Grade, were installed in 1878, so it's after that. Odds are the map falls into the broad "late 1800's, early 1900's" sort of approximation, and perhaps was related to some early engineering surveys done in 1906 and mentioned in the rapid description for Hammer Factor --- which back then was called "Fish Stop Falls".  This link right here takes you to the stand-alone AW page for the map above. |
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| Author: | USGS | Location: | Green Narrows, NC | |
| Subject: | A bunch of squiggly lines | Rapid: | All your favorites | |
| Date: | n/a | Level: | Can't tell for sure | |
| Size: | 517.94KB | Format: | tiff | |
| AW Photo ID: | 42048 | AW Reach ID: |
Green [NC]
2. Green Narrows IV-V+
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Why is Sunshine Named Sunshine?
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