Last Updated
April 23 2002
Pam and Jeff traveled to Tennessee during March of 2002. We stayed at Fairfield Glade located in the Cumberland
Plateau.
We hit many great locations including Gatlinburg, Nashville, Chattanooga, Cookesville, Homestead, the Smoky Mountain
State park and many locations in between.
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Fairfield Glade is set on 12,500 acres of the Cumberland Plateau. Offers a vacation for the
entire family. The resort is home to a 36 hole golf course and three 18 holes courses, including
Stonehenge, listed in Golf Digest's 75 best resort course in America.
the resort has an on-site shopping mall, bank, hair salon, and grocery.
Each unit is air-conditioned and offers cable TV. Amenities included a whirlpool spa, VCR,
microwave oven, washer/dyer. Two bath, 1 queen bed, 2 twin beds and sofa sleeper.
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| The living room as looking in from the kitchen |  |
| Another view of the bedroom |  |
| Looking into the master bath.. |  |
| The master bath Jacuzzis. |  |
| Looking into the kitchen past the dining area from the TV room. |  |
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| This is a shot of the digs taken the morning after we arrived. |  |
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The Homestead Tower was built in 1937-1938 to hose the administrative offices of the Cumberland Homesteads, a "homesteading
project" of the Roosevelt era following the "Great Depression."
The structure is a marvel of innovative design and execution. The octagon stone tower houses a water tank and a
winding stairway leading to a lookout platform at the top.
Four large rooms at the base of the tower are now used for the museum and the other community related activities.
The interior is finished with wood paneling and hardwood floors, typical of all the original homes in the community.
It is hoped that visitors to the museum will gain a better understanding of the times and the people who make up
the Homestead story.
Cumberland Homestead Museum 96 Highway 68 Crosssville Tennessee
Hours Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays 12 noon - 5 p.m.
| The Homestead Tower Museum opened July 1, 1984 during the 50th anniversary celebration of the Cumberland Homesteads beginning. Exhibits include a collection of photo's, documents and artifacts from the 1930's and 1940's when the community was developing. More than 250 selected families worked here together on what was termed "The Showplace of the New Deal". |  |
| The project included construction of over 10 houses for selected families. These homes were constructed of the native stone. They still look very good after all this time. |  |
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| map of Fall Creek Falls State Park. |  |
| One of the first locations we visited was Falls Creek State Park which was located about 35 minutes away. We did
not want to travel far, and this place looked nice. This photo is of Ryan and Amy standing at the lookout located at the first falls which is located close to the visitors parking and welcome center. |
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| A beautiful view. |  |
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| Plaque at Cane Creek Falls and Cascades. |  |
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| Pam and Ryan closer up then the previous photo. This photo show not only them pretty well but also the rock cliff face. The moss on the large rocks jutting out of the cliff face can be seen behind them. |  |
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| Ryan marching across the suspension bridge, taken by Pam. |  |
| Walking across a wooden bridge across a creek in a nice forest is Ryan, Amy and Pam. |  |
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| A photo of the creek we crossed, taken from the wooden bridge. This shows the water stained red from the iron in the earth. The woods forming a canopy over the water. |  |
| The falls, taken from the observation railing on the cliff. Notice the cliff rocks stained red from the iron in the water. |  |
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| Photo of Ryan on the observation deck taken by Jeff on the main observation deck.If you can find Ryan, email me. You may win a prize. |  |
| The falls. |  |
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| Pam cruising along. |  |
| Ryan mixing up the cheese. |  |
| Ryan whipping up some grub. |  |
| Ryan mixed up a bowl of his cheese sauce for an evening snack with chips. |  |
| Cades Cove, located in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee. |  |
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| The Cable Mill water wheel John P. Cable bought land in the Cove in the late 1860's. He built a water powered grist mill and sawmill in about 1870. The same wheel provided power for both mills. It was a sash sawmill with a heavy reciprocating blade that cut a short distance into a log with each downward stoke. |
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| The Cable Mill In addition to being a miller and operator of a sawmill, John Cable was a farmer. A large bell was mounted on a pole for customers to ring with the miller was in the field. A son, James V. Cable, inherited the mill and operated it well into the twentieth century. but he ceased to operate the sash sawmill because it could not compete with more modern steam powered mills. |
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| Rustic image of an old worn out horse drawn wagon resting in the overhang of a Cantilever barn. Cantilever barns were common in the Cover were farmers needed shelter in the cold months for the livestock they grazed in the mountains during the warm season. The overhand in cantilever barns such as this one provided shelter for animals, as well as storage space for farm equipment. Cantilever construction (counterweighted overhanging beams)originated centuries ago in Europe. |
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| Sign at Laural Falls. The falls are located 1.25 miles from the road. The climb will take a hiker 300 feet higher than the location of the sign at the parking area. Average walk time to the falls: 40 minutes. |  |
| The water falls, image taken standing at the base of the falls along the water path.This is the upper falls. |  |
| Ryan sitting at the base of the falls. Looking from the base of the upper falls down to him. |  |
| Closer image of Ryan. |  |
| Liz and Amy sitting on the base of the upper falls. I climbed down along the rocks to the lower falls and took this photo. |  |
| One of the many smaller falls of the lower falls. |  |
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| We got to Gatlinburg and wolfed down some grub. This is an action shot of us walking to the Ober Gatlinburg skylift. But is was closed. |  |
| The Ober Gatlinburg was closed for its annual repair. It had just closed the previous day. Wanting to ride a lift of some sort, Pam and I rode the sky life. |  |
| Moving up the lift we cross a nice creek flowing alongside the hotels. |  |
| And we cross the creek and are on the way up. |  |
| The view from the top of the hill. |  |
| The ride down. It looks like you are higher off the ground going down than when moving up the hill, but I do not think it is any higher. |  |
| Pam looking out over one of the rock cliffs down towards the canal below. |  |
| A shot looking across the smaller of the two atriums. There is a lot of things inside the hotel. |  |
| The canal inside the hotel. This is the canal we took a boat ride on. The boat ride goes through all the canals which winds through the atriums and beside the water falls - plural. |  |
| The inside of the Opry Hotel in Nashville. This is the largest dang hotel I have ever set eyes on! |  |
