The Ephraim Bales Double Cabin in the Roaring Fork Historic District, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Built around 1890-1900.
The Ephraim Bales house is one of more than 80 historic buildings preserved in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Each stands as a memory to those who built it. Historic buildings like this are national treasures. Once lost, they can never be regained. The Bales family lived here from about 1890 to about 1930.
It would be difficult to find a better place to imagine mountain life than this. Picture yourself growing up here as one of Ephraim and Minerva Bales’ nine children. Look around. This was your world. Imagine yourself and 10 others living in this small cabin.
Ephraim Bales owned 72 acres here. He farmed 30; the rest remained wooded. This was like many farms along the Roaring Fork, where families scratched a hard living from a very rocky land.
[Text by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior]
The Ephraim Bales Double Cabin in the Roaring Fork Historic District, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Built around 1890-1900.
The Ephraim Bales house is one of more than 80 historic buildings preserved in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Each stands as a memory to those who built it. Historic buildings like this are national treasures. Once lost, they can never be regained. The Bales family lived here from about 1890 to about 1930.
It would be difficult to find a better place to imagine mountain life than this. Picture yourself growing up here as one of Ephraim and Minerva Bales’ nine children. Look around. This was your world. Imagine yourself and 10 others living in this small cabin.
Ephraim Bales owned 72 acres here. He farmed 30; the rest remained wooded. This was like many farms along the Roaring Fork, where families scratched a hard living from a very rocky land.
[Text by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior]