Mountain Panorama
The Cades Cove Mountains in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park from the Cades Cover area of the park.
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Colors of the Sky
As the sun sets on the western end of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and Cades Cove, the sun lights up and colors the sky with multiple shades of red and yellows. Shadows are cast upon the mountains giving them their blue hue.
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Wild Turkey
Cades Cove in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park is home to myriad of wildlife, which include wild turkey that roam the fields within the cove.
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A Gaggle of Gobbles
Their are multitudes of wild turkey that roam the fields of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Here are just three of the gaggle of 15, or so turkeys that were roaming the fields on this particular morning.
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Black Bear on the Hunt
A black bear roaming the fields of the Cades Cove rummaging for berries and other food in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
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On the Go
A black bear in Cades Cove of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, hunting for sustenance in the heat of the day
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Abrams Falls
Abrams Falls is a 25 foot waterfall in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park that pours into a pool at the bottom, making it a popular swimming spot after a hard hike to view it.
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Falls Admiration
Abrams Falls, a 25 foot waterfall, in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, sits at the end of a 2.5 mile trail lined with Rhododendrons and hemlock. The trail also traverses mountain ridges of pine-oak forests. Here, a family sits at the base of the waterfall, admiring its beauty and cool spray on a hot summer day.
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Abrams Falls
The falls and creek are named for Cherokee Chief Abram or Abraham whose village once stood several miles downstream.
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The Falls at Rest
Abrams Falls is a popular swimming area after a tough hike to the falls. The pool at the base of the falls has a strong undertow as it continues to flow downstream. Here swimmers climb a rock at the base of the falls for a rest.
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Soak & Sun
In additional to the large volume of water running over the falls, one of the highlights of the falls is the long, deep and picturesque pool at the base of the falls. The pool attracts many swimmers, like the ones pictured here, basking in the sun after their swim in the falls pool.
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Friendship at the Falls
A group of swimmers resting after a hard swim in the pool at the base of Abrams Falls.
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Fields & Mountains
The fields of Cades Cove as they turn to mountains of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Here, Tater Ridge of the Cades Cove Mountain extends into the cove as weather forms above.
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Weather Formation
Weather forms above the mountains in the Cades Cove area of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Here, the Cades Cove Mountains give way to the fields of Cades Cove.
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Mountain Ridges
Tater Ridge of the Cades Cove Mountain within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, as the mountains give way to the fields of Cades Cove.
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Cades Cove Sunset
The sun sets behind the bottom of the Cave Ridge as the sun peeks in between clouds of an incoming weather pattern.
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Turkey Chase
Turkey's chasing each other in the fields of Cades Cove, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Morning Ridges
The morning sun rises on Leadbetter Ridge (left) and Horseshoe Ridge (right) of the Great Smokey Mountains of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Early morning fog floats along the bottom of the ridges and the fields of Cades Cove, along Sparks Lane
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Cobb Ridge
Morning light and clouds fall upon Cobb Ridge (center) in Cades Cove of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, as seen from Sparks Lane. Cobb Butt (left) lingers in the morning mist.
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Methodist Church
This church replaced the original log cabin church in 1902 and was built in 115 days by blacksmith J. D. McCampbell, who also served as its longstanding minister. The church cost $115 to build. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS) The cemetery serves as final resting place of former congregates as well as recent descendants of former residents of the cove.
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The Cove & The Gap
The mid morning sun shines on the fingers of Cobb Ridge as they slope down to the Whistling Gap, with the grass fields of Cades Cove in the foreground.
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Clouds Above The Cove
Weather is forming above the Cobb Ridge and the Whistling Gap as the wind blows through the grass fields of Cades Cove
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Missionary Baptist Church
The Missionary Baptist Church dates to 1915, but was closed in 1944. Its congregates formed the church in 1839 after being expelled from the Primitive Baptist Church in 1839 for favoring missionary work (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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God's Shining Light
The Missionary Baptist Church in Cades Cove of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. The members of this church ceased to meet during the Civil War. However, when it resumed meeting afterwards, they did so without the members who had been Confederate sympathizers (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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The Whistling Gap
The slopes of the Whistling Gap as they wind down to the fields of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
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A Raven in Heat
A raven taking a respite from the heat in the shade of a tree in Cades Cove of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park
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Fingers
The fingers of the Cobb Ridge extending into the Cades Cove of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
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Cades Cove and the Mountains
A view of the far western edge of the Cobb Ridge fingers as they lay into the Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
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LeQuire Cantilever Barn
Cantilever barns, such as this one, were utilized for shelter for animals, as well as storage space for farm equipment. These type of barns were common in Cades Cove. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS). The LeQuire barn is located on the grounds of the Cable Mill.
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Cable Mill
The John P. Cable grist mill and sawmill was built in about 1870, on the land he bought in about 1860. The mill still sits on its original site today. The mill is a water powered mill. Water flows through the millflume, from the milldam and pond. A Watergate at the dame is opened to send water down the millrace and over the mill wheel. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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John P. Cable Mill
The same wheel provided power for both the grist mill and the sawmill. The mill was a sash sawmill with a heavy reciprocating blade that cut a short distance into a log with each downward stroke. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS).
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Gregg-Cable House & Smokehouse
Leason Gregg bought an acre of land from John P. Cable in 1879 and built a small house on it with lumber sawed at the Cable's Mill and is believed to be the first all-frame house in the Cove. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS).
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Dive-Through Barn
This type of barn, with a drive-through in the center and stalls on each side were typical of barns in eastern Tennessee. Two men with pitchforks, one on a wagon load of hay in the drive-through and the other in the loft, could transfer the hay to the loft in a short time. The hay was fed to draft animals and milk cows in the stall below during winter months when grass in the fields was poor. Th drive-through sometimes served as a storage place for farm equipment. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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The Corn Crib
As corn as the most important crop in the Cove, the corn crib was a place to store the corn was the corn crib. The cracks between the logs allowed air circulation to dry the corn. Some farmers shucked the corn husk, while others stored it with he husk on. Corn shucking were sometimes social events where a fellow finding a red ear got to kiss a girl. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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Dan Lawson Place
Dan Lawson built this house in 1856 on land bought from his father-in-law, Peter Cable, whose home stood to twist across the stream. Lawson owned a swath of land starting at the Tennessee-North Carolina line on the mountain crest to the south and coming down the mountain and across the Cove and north to the top of Cade Cove Mountain. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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The Cades Cove Mountain
Looking north, from the Dan Lawson Place, through Cades Cove and towards Tater Ridge and the Cades Cove Mountain
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Tipton Place
Built in the early 1870's by "Colonel Hamp" Tipton, a Mexican War veteran, for his daughters "Miss Lucy" and "miss Lizzie" who taught school in the Cove. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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Double-pen Corn Crib & Cantilever Barn
Located opposite the Tipton Place, a replica of a double-pen corn crib and cantilever barn stands in the same place as an earlier barn. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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Carter Shields Cabin
A wound suffer in the Battle of Shiloh left George Washington "Carter" Shields crippled for life. Shortly after the war he married and moved to Kansas. He returned to Cade Cove in 1906 and bought this property in 1910. Shields lived here 11 years before leaving again. (Great Smoky Mountain Association/NPS)
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Noah “Bud” Ogle Home
The first stop along the Roaring Fork Motor Trail in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is a log home built by Noah “Bud” Ogle around the early 1880's for his farmstead in the area, which was created in 1879. The Ogle's became the first homesteaders to settle in the White Oak Flats area, now known as Gatlinburg. (hikinginthesmokys.com)
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The "Saddle-bag"
Architecturally, the Noah “Bud” Ogle cabin is known as a "saddle-bag" house, which means it consists of two houses joined by a common chimney. The Ogle home is the beginning of a loop trail off the Roaring Fork Motor Trail in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. (hikinginthesmokys.com)
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Le Conte Creek
Within the Roaring Fork Motor Trail of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is Le Conte Creek. Le Conte Creek is a small stream that runs north, down the Mt. Le Conte mountainside, and through the Noah "Bud" Ogle Farmstead and into Gatlinburg. Roughly seen at the top of the photo, alongside the creek is the Ogle "tub" mill. (hikinginthesmokys.com)
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Ogle "tub" Mill
Alongside the Le Conte Creek, of the Roaring Forks Motor Trail, with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, lies the Ogle "tub" mill, which was used to grind corn into meal for the family and other settlers in the area. Built around 1885, the mill was powered by water from LeConte Creek, which was fed by an 80-foot log flume. This system which was used to generate power for the mill was fairly typical for homesteaders in the Southern Appalachians at that time. (hikinginthesmokys.com)
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Forest View
A view of mountain ridges within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, from an unnamed overlook on the Roaring Fork Motor Trail.
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Mountain View
A view of a mountain ridge within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, from an unnamed overlook on the Roaring Fork Motor Trail.
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The Flow of Baskin Creek
The flow of Baskins Creek from a small cascade alongside the Roaring Fork Motor Trail, within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
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The Green Stream
A small cascade of the Baskin Creek, alongside the Roaring Fork Motor Trail of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Note the abundance of greenery from the surrounding white oak, magnolia, and chestnut oak creekside.
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