** Mountain Folk and Log Cabins Ping List **
If I lived there, that would make great day trip outings.
Please add me to your ping list! I enjoy these old things.
Beautiful! Simply beautiful!!!
Nice layout.
Thanks...while looking at the cabins thought about my ancestor, Isaac White 1752-1819, who was also given land for service in the Revolutionary war. His land was in Washington County (then NC, now TN). I could imagine his family in one of those cabins and the life they led.
Thanks, again.
The ‘collection’ is incomplete at best. There are two examples down on Crouch Road in Washington County which date to the 1800’s, one to 1843 and the other was moved to the current sight in the early 1950’s to prevent it being covered by the new ‘Boone Lake’. I grew up in that log house.
Bert, did you save pix of those two log structures near the picnic grounds? You might find this thread of interest.
Wow. I now know that my home would be considered a “dogtrot” house. Fascinating.
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Thanks for posting this.
A few years ago the boyfriend and I purchased some Nikon cameras and went on a quest in Middle TN to find cool Barns and log cabins to photograph. I’ve got one of those photos of a beautiful, rustic log cabin displayed on my office wall.
Thanks for the post. Middle and Eastern Tennessee are beautiful places to live or visit.
"Backcountry" as a destination is a conceptually shifting thing over time. My (and your) part of NC was backcountry when it was thinly settled, and you can track settlement by references to backcountry over time, continually shifting westward. "Backcountry" as a geopolitical consideration was and is those lands where those religious groups outside State-established churches felt safe, the Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Moravians, Amish, Mennonites and etcetera.
The footprint of the backcountry forms the core of political conservatism in the United States today, stretching from central Pennsylvania all the way down the Blue Ridge into Alabama, with even most far western enclaves of conservatism in the Rockies tracing their origin to this region.
You've likely never heard of most of my people who went over the mountain way back when, but Landon Carter was my fifth great grandfather. He's a well-known figure in Tennessee history, and in the history of the State of Franklin, in the Revolutionary War battle of King's Mountain and even the Wautauga Settlement. The Carter "mansion" (well, by the standard of the times it was) in Elizabethton, TN is still standing, and at it's heart is a humble log cabin built when that location was NC, decades before TN statehood.
He and his father John did far more good than not for that State, so I assume they've been forgiven for a little early creativity in the land office, lol.
I love log cabins! In about 1950 I had the pleasure of visiting the dog trot log cabin in deep east Texas build by my ancestors in about 1830. Shortly after that, my uncle who owned it died and the property was sold. I know about where it was located but I have no idea what happened to it.
Wonderful post, as always. Those are some beautiful structures. The few that sit on their original sites I find to be especially compelling. It’s like they’re part of the natural landscape.
Lots of surviving log cabins in Ohio too.
I can think of 7 just in the area I grew up in.
3 cabins for rent here http://www.millcreekmetroparks.com/RentaFacility/IndoorFacilities/OldLogCabin/tabid/1852/Default.aspx
Daddy never would admit the family was from west virginia ☺
nearly all Tennesseans were descended from 2/3/4th sons of Cavalier gentry or yeoman from same gene pool or Scots-Irish.
that is the South
throw in some Hugenots for good measure
At first I thought this was about gay Republicans.