Noah Ogle Place
Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 57 " N , 83 ° 29 ′ 24" W.
Noah Ogle Place is a homestead in the Great Smoky Mountains in Sevier County , Tennessee . The hut, the barn and the flour mill from the end of the 19th century, built by the mountain farmer Noah “Bud” Ogle (1863–1913), are still preserved today. The property and structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1977 . They are subordinate to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park .
The buildings that still exist at Noah Ogle Place are characteristic of a typical 19th-century mountain farm in the southern Appalachians . Ogles hut corresponds to the type known as a "saddlebag" ( saddle bag ), which was relatively rare in the region. Ogle's barn is an excellent example of a four-barn barn; this type was once widespread in the area, but Ogle's barn is now the last structure of this type in the national park. Ogle's flour mill is the last flour mill in the national park and one of the few that are still functional in the region. One of the later owners of the farm named it " Junglebrook ", so that the farm is sometimes referred to as the " Junglebrook Historic District " today.
location
Noah Ogle Place is near LeConte Creek (formerly known as Mill Creek) in the upper part of the West Fork catchment area of the Little Pigeon River . Gatlinburg is across from the national park border to the north, Roaring Fork is on the other side of the range of hills to the east, the Sugarlands to the west and Mount Le Conte to the south . Cherokee Orchard Road connects Noah Ogle Place north with US Highway 441 in Gatlinburg and south with the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. The mill is located on the banks of LeConte Creek, about half a mile from the stable and hut.
history
Noah Ogles great-grandparents, William Ogle (1756-1803) and his wife Martha Huskey (1756-1826), were the first white settlers in what is now Gatlinburg, and their house is still on the premises of the Arrowmont School in Gatlinburg. The descendants of the Ogles settled on the nearby river and the valleys of the streams nearby. Noah Ogle Farm originally had a size of 400 acres (about 162 hectares divided), but at the beginning of the 20th century he had his country among the children, keeping only 150 acres for himself. This 150 acres make up the bulk of the historic district.
Ogle's house and outbuildings were built in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The land was barren and rocky - the National Park Service later judged the land "unsuitable" for agriculture - and Ogle mainly grew corn. A larger apple orchard with several varieties belonged to the property. Ogle's relatives were allowed to use his mill for free, but others were charged a payment in the form of a share of the flour in kind. Home-grown corn and apples were brought to market in Knoxville. Ogle's wife, Lucinda Bradley Ogle, was a local midwife .
In addition to the existing structures and typical outbuildings, Ogles Farm also had a so-called “ weaner cabin ” , a typically small hut near the main house, in which the farmer's newly married children lived for a while after their wedding. Several of Ogle's sons lived in such a hut on the estate for a time after their marriages. However, this hut has not been preserved, only a pile of rubble remains from its foundation.
In the 1920s, several investors started a 796 acre apple orchard just south of Ogle Homestead and a nursery known as the Cherokee Orchard . When the Tennessee Park Commission began buying land for the creation of the national park in the late 1920s, the owners of the Cherokee Orchard threatened to litigate the national park funding law if their land was expropriated. The apple orchard owners gave up their opposition to the national park in 1931 after they were guaranteed a long-term lease for the land.
Historic Buildings
Noah Ogle's hut
Noah Ogle's cabin actually consists of two separate huts that share a single chimney. This type is known as a " saddlebag ". The two halves of the hut were built about five years apart; the second cabin was added as the Ogles family grew. Both huts are 18 feet by 20 feet (around 5.5 m by 6.2 m) and consist of a floor and the attic. The walls are made of hewn tree trunks connected with dovetail notches. The combined structure has six doors, one on the front and one on the back of the two halves and two next to the chimney to enable a quick transition between the two parts of the building. Each of the hut roofs was with split shingles covered oak, the Fu¤boden consisted of sawn wood planks, and hearths were built of rubble. The windows were originally simple wooden shutters, but glass windows were later used. One of the huts had an opening near the floor that allowed chickens to escape from predators. A covered veranda connects both huts at the front and back.
barn
Ogle's barn is the last remaining barn in the area today, with four stables, each eleven feet (3.3 m) wide and consisting of one story and storage. The gable roof is shingled. As in the main house, the walls consist of hewn logs that are connected to each other in the same way as in the house. The park administration repaired the barn several times in the 1960s.
Flour mill
Ogles Flour Mill is the last of at least 13 horizontal wheel water mills that once operated on LeConte Creek. The Mill Building is an eleven foot square (3.4 m × 3.4 m) building that sits on circular logs and a mud sill over LeConte Creek, about eight hundred meters away from Ogle's hut and barn. The walls are made of logs connected with saddle grooves, and the floor is made of hewn joists. A vertical shaft connects the millstones with the horizontal water wheel below the mill building. A 24 m long channel made of hewn tree trunks guides the water from the creek to the mill wheel. The mill was restored in the 1960s to be functional again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Edward Trout: Nomination Form for Bud Ogle Farm ( English , PDF; 598 kB) National Register of Historic Places. May 1977. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- ^ Noah Wilson "Bud" Ogle
- ↑ a b c Lucinda Oakley Ogle, Jerry Wear (Ed.), Sugarlands: A Lost Community of Sevier County, Tennessee (Sevierville, Tenn .: Sevierville Heritage Committee, 1986), pp. 41-59.
- ^ Carlos Campbell, Birth of a National Park In the Great Smoky Mountains (Knoxville, Tenn .: University of Tennessee Press, 1969), pp. 53, 103-105.