My Great Smoky Mountains

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My
Great Smoky Mountains
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A view off Roaring Fork Trail
Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

The Smoky Mountains, a special place, lives in the hearts and spirits
of each man, woman and child who ever venture there. If possible, they
will always return ... it can be said that it is akin to returning to one's childhood.
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My father, and his fathers before him, called this ... the Great Smoky Mountains ...
their home. I was an adult before I was able to visit this great place
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in my spirit and in my soul ... I have finally returned home

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My family of Rhea's, The Descendants of Matthew 'The Rebel' Rhea of Scotland and Ireland,
and The Reverend Joseph Rhea of Ireland and Tennessee
can be read about on my genealogy website

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A few views you'll be able to see on the Roaring Fork Trail

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Noah "Bud" Ogle Home
1879
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The Ogle family was one of the first to settle in the backwoods community of White Oak Flats, now called Gatlinburg. Noah "Bud" Ogle was a descedent of these pioneers. He and his bride, Cindy, started out on this farm of 400 acres in 1879. They lived temporarily in an older one-room cabin nearby and raised the lower half of the new house that now stands there. Gradually, as the family grew, they constructed the other half to make room for their children. . The downstairs rooms were used for living, cooking and sleeping, with the boys sleeping in the two lofts. Outside, the two alcoves beside the chimney were used for storage space. Meat, cornmeal and salt were kept in the front one, while chickens resided in the rear one. .

Ogle Spring House
. The Ogles had running water, a little unusual for this time and place. Wood was used to fashion an open trough (or flume). About halfway up the road toward the barn is a spring, which poured water into a flume that ran the water up to the house. And there the water emptied into a double sink made from a single large log. They were able to scrub their laundry (and their kids) on the back porch of the house. .
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Another view of the Ogle Spring House

Ogle Spring

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