This section of "Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads and Bridges," taken from a 1970s Historic American Engineering Record, describes the Cataloochee Valley Road. The trail was graded around 1825 and used to drive packhorses, cattle, and hogs.…
This 1937 series of 78 photographs was made in and around the Milas Messer homestead on Cove Creek in Cataloochee section of the Great Smoky Mountains. The photographs were made by Edouard E. Exline (1905-1960), who signed his work, “E.E.E.” Exline…
This photograph of a cabin with a steeply pitched roof in Cataloochee was made by Charles S. Grossman (1900-1972). An architect by trade, Grossman worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps, but spent most of his time on historic preservation…
This photograph is of a farm wagon with wooden wheels used in the Cataloochee Valley. The circa 1936 photograph was made by Hiram Coleman Wilburn (1880-1967). As an unofficial historian of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Wilburn spent time…
This series of 56 photographs, mostly from the 1930s, shows various fields in cultivation in Cataloochee. The images are by various National Park Service photographers. An architect by trade, Charles S. Grossman (1900-1972) worked with the Civilian…
This 59-page interview is the transcript of a group of 1981 recorded interviews on “Cataloochee: Life in a remote mountain valley.” The manuscript was collected as part of the Cataloochee History Project that collected photographs, stories, and oral…
This series of 8 photographs, documenting various pioneer artifacts, were made by various photographers documenting the material culture in Cataloochee.
This photograph of Mrs. Sarah Parton of Cataloochee was taken in 1936, when she was 74 years old. Behind her are "shuck" beans, strung on the wall for winter food. The photograph notes that Parton had 4 bushels of these beans, 3 bushels of soup…
These 6 photographs of a still in Cataloochee, made by Edouard E. Exline (1905-1960), who signed his work, “E.E.E.” Exline often worked with Charles S. Grossman (1900-1972), an architect by trade, who worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps.…