I don’t know much about Cade’s Cove. My mother lived in Elkmont when she was a child and her father worked for the Little River Lumber Company in the 1920s. I asked her once about Cades Cove and she said that she never went there until after the Park was created. Her mother and father were born in Alpha community, near Morristown
I have trout fished all over the Park and still see in certain places evidence of where Little River Lumber had camps set up along the river and some streams...Old pots, foundation stones...railroad ties almost gone to dirt...