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imi ruitn i m\n Cataloochee Not many people find tfei way into Little Catalooche these days. For one thing, y» can't just drive right up to doorstep of the restored Hani veers nah cabin or the white BapfiW" Church that stands on * Catakfchee hillside. wr. - GREAT SMUKY Muumwiw NATIONAL PARK Tg Isn't Easy, But It's Half The Fun across on the gravel iter several miles of lI1d turns, you'll see ft jjrawsMBate across a road that But maybe that's the reason Pari trip into what used to be at* compfl ff to the left. A sign he entrance to Little? and the point |pur hike begins, historian Ed Trout has a trip into what used to be a| compfW information for thriving farm community is' visitor/, to the area. His such a pleasant experience for;, descrijion of a trip into Little folks who do ramble back into; Ca *i« I lee follows; this hidden corner of Great.' LittK- Cataloochee Smoky Mountains National- ie • }°d as an offshoot of Park- • cgi« Cataloochee. It was To reach the area, leave In '-separated by Noland Moun- terstate 40 at the US 276 exit.' tai bi't joined to it by blood Turn right at the first road' n> " rriage. Young adults (Cove Creek Road) and follow'?;- - he Palmer, Hannah, it up over the mountain. You'll' <•. «•; 1 and Bennett families come to a paved road even- \ moved >n in the 1850's to tually that leads off to the left 'establish their own homes. By into Big Cataloochee, but taio there were 1,251 people in you'll need to , continue 'i'-.;- - hee as a whole, a fair share of them in the smaller settlement. Until about 1910 farming formed the economic base of the hamlet. After then, large scale apple growing opened a new window, .admitting the profitable breeze of commerce to blow into Little Cataloochee. Apples commanded the energy of most of the inhabitants for years to come, and rewarded them with storebought clothes, modern machinery and general prosperity. Travel into there today is limited to foot or horseback on a one-lane dirt road. The twists, turns, ups and downs I recall the miserable trip described by Methodist Bishop Asbury in the early nineteenth century. Surprises lurk around every swit chback: a grouse that refuses to.fly until almost stepped on; a handful of bounding deer, their white flags waving a hasty "good-bye" into a thicket. The beauty and solitude are pronounced, as if no one had ever set foot there. Suddenly, there it is — the Hannah cabin. John Jackson Hannah moved here with his bride in 1857. After living in a smaller board cabin, he built this log house in 1864. The property passed to his son, Jim, who remained here until national park days. Jim was a farmer, beekeeper, sawyer, justice of the peace and Sunday school teacher. Melissa was a hardworking farm wife. A rail fence enclosed the yard; beegums stood on the hillside; and the garden, apple orchard and fields spread out The Section C Mountaineer Wednesday, June 3,1981 'rogram To Explore Afe In The Valley taloochee — Life in a :e Mountain Valley" is sic of a program slated ay evening in the parish of Grace Episcopal h, Waynesville. Spon- by the Friends of the ood County Public •y, the "History Is Peo- .ession is scheduled to at 7:30 p.m. and is open public without charge. tern Carolina History ssor Dr. Gordon B. nney will serve as •ator for the discussion, Dr. Roy Carroll of the rsity of North Carolina iapel Hill as principal er. Carroll is the author istoric.Structures of Lit- f tie Cataloochee." In addition, the program will feature four "home grown historians" familiar with Cataloochee. They are Dr. Robert Woody, Mrs. Gudger (Mary Davis) Palmer, Mark E. Hannah and Raymond K. Caldwell. Members of the Waynesville Book Club will serve as hostesses for the session. Tuesday's meeting is the first in a three-part series on the art of preserving local and family history. Other topics are "Sunburst — Life in a Logging Camp and Village," slated July 14 and "Finding Your Family Tree" on Aug. 11. The programs are funded by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Committee and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. C.J. Overbeck is director of the project. Other members of the steering committee are project financial officer Larry Ammons, committee secretary Mrs. Fred Ogden, consultant Dr. Gordon McKin- ney, publicity coordinator Mrs. K.D. Fry, Mrs. Cecil Up- church and James Roy Moody. All programs in the series are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, 110 North Haywood Street, Waynesville. LITTLE CATALOOCHEE BAPTIST CHURCH was constructed in 1889. The distinctive belfry, upper left, attracts the attention of visitors who make their way into the remote area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Former residents of Little Cataloochee and their descendants still gather annually at the church for a reunion. around the house and barn. The house represents dozens like it that used to be in Cataloochee. Logs hewn onsite form the crib. Inside, puncheons of poplar heartwood form the floor. This handmade brick chimney was a rare and fancy touch. Little Cataloochee Baptist Church doesn't sneak up on you like the Hannah cabin. Sitting on a ridgetop, painted white and wearing a tall belfry, it draws your attention from some distance away. Constructed in 1889, it is the product of local builders and their fixed, traditional ways. Services were held once or twice a month, with the usual revivals and reunions each year. Ordinary services were reverent, but informal, with a lot of running in and out by the men folk. Outside, they gossiped, whittled, chewed and smoked, traded horses and debated politics. Today at reunions they do the same, after cleaning the cemetery and decorating the graves. The road continues for another mile up Coggins Branch to the old Cook place. What's left of the road climbs another one-third mile to Will Messer's upper farm. A trip up there is worth the effort because of the beauty of the returning forest, and the tantalizing remains of man's brief occupancy of Cataloochee. A fencepost here, a rock wall there, and occasional flowers marking old homesites. At the Cook place the apple house ruins alone remain. Way up at the end of the line is where the commercial economy of Little Cataloochee began. In 1894,24 year old Will Messer married Rachel, one of Dan Cook's daughters. In a few years they acquired several houses, 340 acres of the best land, and were running a sawmill, gristmill, store, blacksmith shop, stockyard and several farms. The apple house though, was the hub of business that brought wealth to Messer and others in Little Cataloocnee. During the harvest season (Sept. 15-Nov. 1) apples were gathered, graded and stored inside. Women and children cooked massive meals for the rest of the hands, and the many buyers and teamsters who came to pick up the fruit. Apples went to surrounding lumber camps, and to urban centers farther away. Messer's crop alone averaged $2000 per year, with the Burgess crop close behind. At the height of its prosperity Little Cataloochee community evaporated. Its residents moved out to make way for the park. From wilderness, to civilization, to wilderness is unusual to us. To the deer browsing in the apple house ruins, things are perfectly normal. It's just another pile of rock and fallen timber. Building Restoration Takes Time, Money D TROUT, Great Smoky Mountains Na- onal Park historian, examines a iconstructed dovetail corner on a italoochee blacksmith shop, lountaineer Photo by Pay lor) r By ANN PAYLOR Every homeowner knows the challenge of keeping up with chores around the house. Seems like there's always a window that needs fixing or a paint job to be done. But that's nothing, next to the "fix-it" work required in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Imagine trying to stop leaks in buildings that date before the turn of the century, or fitting together logs that used to be a cabin, but now lay in a heap. Building restoration is a continual process, Park historian Ed Trout said. Efforts are made to stabilize historic structures which the Park is in danger of losing to the elements, and other repairs are then made as needed. Extensive work has been done in Cataloochee, located in the southeast corner of the Park, Trout said. He estimated $75,000 has been spent over the last three to four years on buildings in both Big and Little Cataloochee. Some structures, like the Woody house in Big Cataloochee, required major overhauls, Trout explained. "Unless you saw this house before, you can't know how much we've done," he added, waving a hand toward the freshly-painted two-story home. "This house started out as a log cabin," he explained, "and the Woodys kept adding on to it. That makes it harder to restore than a house that was built all at once." Tools similar to those used when the structures were built are incorporated in the restoration process, Trout said. Wood shakes for roofs are split the old-timey way and replacement boards are hand planed to fit the character of the building. There's a lot of hard work in putting the pieces back together again, but historic restoration jobs call for brains as well as brawn. A certain amount of detective work must be done to determine what materials were used in the structure, what the original design was and what changes may have been made over the years. Even the color of paint is called into question. The blue trim on the Caldwell house in Cataloochee is the shade that was originally used, Trout said. How does he know? "I took a paint sample from up under one of the eaves where the rain and light hadn't gotten to it," Trout said paint samples from the Caldwell house and other structures have been catalogued and are now kept under wrap in a dark room to protect their colors. Historical preservation is one consideration in restoring buildings, but safety is also taken into account. "We had to look at the floor supports in Palmer's Chapel," Trout explained, "because we didn't want the floor to come crashing down when 200 people got in there for the reunion." And maybe that's where keeping Park buildings ir. shape has a lot in commor. with taking care of the olc homeplace. People may take it for granted when you've done the job right, but they're sure to notice if something's out of whack. JOHN JACKSON HANNAH moved to this cabin in Little Cataloochee in 1857 with his bride. A rail fence once enclosed the yard. The garden, apple orchard and fields spread out around the house in what today is a regenerated forest. •*■..---,-■? > - • . PBHMJMito ii III I * 1 ■Plk
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This .30-acre tract 230 in Cataloochee was owned by Ola School. While, in general, the Great Smoky Mountains region was sparsely populated, the Cataloochee Valley remained an exception. By 1900, the population of Cataloochee had grown to 1,000 residents living in hundreds of log and frame homes. A few historic buildings have been preserved on site, including two churches, a school, several homes, and outbuildings. The North Carolina Park Commission was tasked with purchasing land for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and people living in Cataloochee were among those displaced. Cataloochee families continue to return for annual reunions. In 2001, the National Park Service re-introduced elk into the valley.
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