The Women's History Trail in Franklin continues to uncover new stories, as it celebrates the history of Western North Carolina. Mary Polanski, one of the co-leaders of the Women's History Trail in Franklin, sits at a picnic table along the Little Tennessee River. "August is upon us here at the Little Tennessee River and East Franklin. And we're in the park by the river and the mound is near us. And the beautiful land around the river is summery looking and it's a little breezy out," said Polanski. Polanski says she can imagine Na'Ha 'Rebecca' Morris working on her 640 acres here in the 1800s. "Summertime I think about them harvesting corn and squash. And they had apples. The kind of things that we see still going here in Macon County," said Polanski. Morris is the most recent addition to the Women's History Trail. Last week, a plaque in her honor was erected at the Nikwasi Mound. Morris was a Cherokee woman who married a white Baptist minister named Gideon Morris. Because she was a

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