The area around Cades Cove Visitor Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park includes a number of structures, two of which are seen in the previous post ("Part 3"). Also nearby is the John P. Cable Grist Mill, which includes a walkway toward the right and a water sluiceway toward the left.
There was also a barn so large that I couldn't fit it into a single shot.
Near the visitor center, a two-way gravel road leads from the Cades Cove loop to the Henry Whitehead Place. Whitehead's house is really two cabins joined by a covered walkway.
Behind the house is a shed.
After getting back in the loop road, I made my next stop at the Dan Lawson Cabin. Lawson built the cabin after purchasing the property from his father-in-law Peter Cable, who was related to John P. Cable, owner of the grist mill seen at the start of this post. A fellow visitor steps out from the back door.
Behind Lawson's cabin is his barn, which appears to be undergoing a reroofing operation. In other words, here's our tax dollars at work.
My next stop was at the Tipton Place, a homestead settled by William "Fighting Billy" Tipton, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. On one side of the loop road is his house, now with a tree in the side yard.
On the other side of the loop road is Tipton's barn.
Between the road and the barn is a double-pen corn crib.
The last place where I stopped in was the Carter Shields Cabin. A Cades Cove native and Civil War veteran named George Washington "Carter" Shields lived in the cabin from around 1910 to 1920, but it was originally built in the 1830s.
After visiting the Shields cabin, I made my way back to Gatlinburg. This concludes my pictorial reporting from Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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