Carter Shields cabin at Cades Cove

This cabin is a favorite.

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Carter Shields place at Cades Cove in the GSMNP

The Carter Shields cabin is the last cabin before you leave Cades Cove.

When you first pull up you are at this split rail fence in front of the cabin.

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Gregg Cable House at Cades Cove - wintertime

This photograph is of the Gregg Cable homeplace at Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Gregg Cable House at Cades Cove

Not sure what happened to this post. They started out all centered. The more I learn about this new computer, the more I don't know. Hope this turns out ok, but we never know until it actually post.

I was standing in the same place for all 4 photographs, I just kept zooming in more. Wouldn't you love to live in a place like this. Other than the Copperheads, of course. This is where the Copperheads were that I posted photos of before.

UPDATE TO Caldwell Place in GSMNP

I have added a story to the end of the post for the Caldwell Place at Cataloochee Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Please revisit it for the new story. A very short version of the same story was in one of my comments, and blogger buddy, Darla, suggested I go back and add it to my post. Hope you enjoy.

Woody Place Cataloochee Cove - GSMNP

This sign should be at each house, but this was the only one we saw in the cove.About half way up that mile LONG hike I realized I only had my telephoto lens. When we got out of the vehicle we thought we were going to be photographing the elk in the distance. So with just the little clearing around the house, I could not get far enough away to get a full photograph of the house.
Could see straight thru the house ok.
Notice the hand made lattice. The wood is a lot thicker than what we see now days., and it is made one stick at a time.

The spring house. And then back down the mile hike to see if the elk were roaming in the fields yet.

Caldwell Place in Cataloochee Cove - GSMNP

Remember this house was built in 1903.
Look at this woodwork.

They not only had the arch, but look at the design going 3 different directions on the same wall.

And the staircase. This house was awesome. Would love to live in today, just not down that 10 miles of mountain side to get to it.

The view from the front porch, nice stream between the house and the barn.

Notice the cross on the barn.

A blogger buddy, Darla, suggested I update this post and tell this story. See the comments on the Woody Place post. This house brought back memories for me. When I was about 10 years old the house down the road past my Granny and Papa's house (in Walton County, Georgia)was very similiar to this house. One Saturday evening Sheriff Doc Sorrells (relative of mine) was called to the house because the man of the house was intoxicated and causing problems. When the sheriff knocked on the front door the man shot him from the back of the house. The man was in the back right room. The shot went through 6 to 8 walls and killed the sheriff standing at the front door. When nobody lived in the house anymore we went in the house to investigate it. CSI would have used beams to show the bullets path. We were not that sophisticated, we stuck our fingers in the holes in all the walls. The holes were at angles in the walls, straight to the front door.

After I was grown I visited the Police Memorial in Washington, DC and found his name on the wall and made a rub of his name. It was a very emotional visit, due to knowing several police officers listed on the wall.

Additional Cabin at Palmer's Place - GSMNP

This cabin is across the road from the Palmer House. It was built in 1924 to house the tourist. They already had 2 bunkhouses for tourist. They charged 50 cents a day to stay in one the bunkhouses or this cabin. An additional 50 cents for meals. And an addditional 50 cents to fish in the ponds.
Notice the brick on the top of the chimney turned on their side to keep the water out.

Cable Mill area in Cades Cove

The Cable Mill area is the largest home place in Cades Cove. The corn meal is here, which I showed with the Copperheads photos, and am not showing with this post.I have always liked this barn, it is real hard to capture a photograph of it without people. (This area is the most crowded on the loop road in Cades Cove due to the restroom facilities, and there is quite a bit here to see.)
They still demonstrate the Sorghum mill here in the fall, but I have never been there when they were using it.

Just another structure in the area.

These are the last of the Labor Day trip to Cades Cove. I think this is a record for me. I have gone through all the photos, they are posted and filed away for later. Now I need to start going back to June's St Pete trip (going again in October) and the July 4th Perry's Water Lilies trip. I just decided to tackle Cades Cove immediately. Hope everybody has enjoyed this trip through this wonderful cove, which is a very small portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Maybe it will inspire a trip in this direction. Remember the Smokeys (as us locals call it) is the only national park with no entrance fee, and it is the most visited park.

Henry Whitehead Place in Cades Cove

This is the Henry Whitehead Place in Cades Cove. I have been to Cades Cove fairly often for the last 37 years, and do not remember ever going by this home place before. We decided to go down Forge Creek Road, which is just a side road, to see what the scenery was like. Never expected a cabin.Notice how 2 separate cabins are right next to each other.
They even share the same gutter. Notice somebody wrote on it. I do not understand why people visiting such a place as the GSMNP would do this.This smokehouse looks about the same as the one at the Cable Mill area where the Copperheads were. We had not yet seen the Copperheads at this time.

Notice how much smalerl in height the back cabin is. The door was too short to go into without bending down, and the ceiling was just above our heads. At least it would stay warmer. Good in the winter, bad in the summer.

Can even look through the front door all the way in to the back cabin.

One last glance before we traveled on down the road.

The front cabin has a brick fireplace, the back cabin has the old stone fireplace. Could possibly be the front fireplace has been replaced by the national park.

Bud Ogle's Place-Great Smoky Mountains National Park

This photograph was taken in April while attending the Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.