Log Cabins and Buildings of the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains

Backcountry Notes ^ | March 2, 2010 | Jay Henderson

[jay1949]

Tennesseans are proud of their frontier heritage and have preserved quite a few vintage log cabins and farm buildings. After the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established in the 1930s, mountain communities were displaced but some of their habitations were preserved. This article presents an archive of monochrome photographs which documented these historic structures.

[sticker]

Here are a couple that I shot:

[MamaB]

Thanks. I use to think that was my favorite place in the country but that was before we went on a train trip through the NW Nat’l Parks. We loved Montana and WY. If anyone ever has a chance to go on that trip, take it. The company which owned that train sold it and the new owners are starting new trips in 2011. We want to go on the one which goes to the Grand Canyon and those states.

[jay1949]

*ping*

Log Cabin and Mountain Folk Ping List

~correcting inadvertent omissions; I’ll get this right eventually~

[from occupied ga]

, I consider those remaining structures to be partly mine and yours; they belong to all of us as part and parcel of our American experience

What a load of crap. By your logic a falling down outhouse is part of our "American experience." You must listen to and believe public television.

If you don't like the content, feel free to refrain from rendering a post

Yes you'd like that. Only posters who agree with your half baked ideas should post. Sorry Jack it doesn't work that way If you post drivel expect someone to call it drivel. If I don't like the content I'll feel free to criticize it for being irrelevant garbage - which it is.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I quite enjoy these posts.

[Bodleian_Girl]

How about some ancestors from the piney woods of Coker, Alabama?

[Bahbah]

Pretty darn neat.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Well thanks! The second oldest boy was my great grandfather, who lived quite a long life in spite of having Marfan’s Syndrome. He was born in 1898. His baby sister just died last year.

[Bahbah]

How wonderful that you have that picture.

I once saw a picture of my father’s family in front of a sod hut on the prairie. The women were as big as the men.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Ah, the soddy! I loved the Little House books.

Very cool memory! We have so much compared to the lives of our ancestors.

[Bahbah]

Yes indeed we do.

[gettinolder]

One or two here don’t seem to have a clue about life.

This set of posts you have put together depicting life in a byegone era, these pioneers who were displaced by a landgrabbing federal government are both very political by nature and should stir the conservative spirit within any who would take the time to read and look!

Great work, thank you Jay

[jay1949]

Many thanks, gettinolder — I don’t expect that everyone will like what I post, and I appreciate those who do.

[squarebarb]

I love your posts.