[jay1949]

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Mountain Folk and Log Cabins Ping List

[ModelBreaker]

My family bought property in CO about 50 years ago. It contained an old stage coach stop. No floor or roof. Four walls leaning every which way. We restored it and it looks a lot like the cabins in the pix. There’s actually about 10 other cabins just down the hill from us with a similar history and look.

Killing the rats that lived there was harder than the restoration. Log cabins are pretty simple.

[hstacey]

Beautiful. Thanks.

[Caipirabob]

I took my family through there in 2007 and made many stops throughout. Simply beautiful!

[ETL]

Thanks for posting. Very nice.

Although I've live in New York City my entire life, my late father was from an area near to the Smokeys. Whenever we visited our relatives there they would take us to see the park. He met my mom in Central Park (NYC) while on leave from the Navy.

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[Semper Mark]

Thanks for posting. This is my part of the country.

I just heard as I was looking at the photos that the Cades Cove Loop Road is going to be closed for three months...
I didn't catch the dates though. That will kill tourism for a while.

[housemouse 1]

Nice, i really like this look,thanks for posting.

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http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yff35ck&va=smokey+mountains&sz=all

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[Bahbah]

Just fascinating.

Thanks.

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[Peter Horry]

One of my favorite places to visit. Don't forget Kermit Caughron (last resident of The Cove), met him in the spring of 1997, think he died in 1999.

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Here’s a great link for wonderful views of the Smoky Mountains...

http://www.clinchmountainhome.com/travel/smokymountains/SmokyMountains.html

[nfldgirl]

There’s an old church in the Cove...beautiful...if ever there, take a look at the tombstones in the church’s graveyard...where a number of men who fought in the American Revolution and their families are buried; also a lot of children who died young.

[PubliusMM]

Thanks for the post. Just got done shoveling more of algore’s global warming, and these pics took us both back to our many wonderful trips into the Smokey Mountains. Now...where’d I put that Mason jar of shine???

[Aquamarine]

My favorite Cades Cove photo.

[fieldmarshaldj]

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[ozarkgirl]

This is so cool. The pictures on the site and then the beautiful pictures people posted. I may change vacation plans this year, I’ve never visited the Smokies but have always wanted to.

[calex59]

I get upset here in Northern CA, because much of the old stuff has been allowed to disappear. When I was a boy, we had all the old stage stations, Wait's station on hwy 16, Dry town , Amador city, Sutter Creek, Jackson and then further up the hill Pine Grove, Pioneer, then on to Cook's station, Ham's Station and Black's station and others that no longer have names.

The original buildings and, in some cases no buildings at all, are long gone. Some new comers to the area have no idea how to pronounce the names or care for that matter.

Some old cabins still exist, some land marks, such as Maidens Grave, still mark the trail that the gold hungry crowd followed to get here trying to find the yellow metal. Far too few of them in my opinion.

The old names such as "The Old Dry Diggins(now Plymouth), Hangtown(Now Placerville), Bottileas(now known as Jackson, the original name was Portuguese, meaning "place of bottles") and Rancheria(which only exists in history books, but if you know which old road to take is still visible with one concrete marker) are gone forever, the victims of an uncaring youth.