Noah Built A Farm
Taken with a Canon Xt.
Noah “Bud” Ogle didn’t let a land assessor’s comment get in the way of making a living. He and his wife, Cindy, started out on a 400 acre farm in 1879 in the White Oak Flats community (now Gatlinburg) despite the assessor’s belief that the land was “not fit for farming.”
They lived temporarily in an older one-room cabin while they raised the lower half of the new house that now stands. As the family grew in number, a second section was added to create a traditional saddlebag configuration.
Efficiency was the operative of the mountain farmer and no amount of space was wasted. Outside the Ogle house, the chimney alcoves were used for storage. The front one held meat, salt and cornmeal while the back one sheltered chickens from foxes and other predators. There was also a box tacked up near the window of the lower pen that served as a hen’s nest and gave the Ogles ready access to eggs.
Like many farms located on streams, the Ogles had a small grist mill for grinding corn into cornmeal. Neighbors sometimes used the mill in exchange for a one gallon per bushel toll. Widows and other “unfortunates” had their corn ground for free.
The Ogle home also had the unusual addition of running water. A wooden flume ran all the way from the spring above the house to the back porch. Here, the water dumped into a double sink, hewn from a single large log.
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Glenn Alderson
Sounds like Noah was genius, they are some great ideas & concepts. Great photo & thanks for the added text.
Jamie Lee
Great capture
Chuck Wickham
SPENT LOTS OF TIME IN AND AROUND THIS GREAT LITTLE CABIN…ALMOST WISH I COULD MOVE IN!
ChelseaBlue
Great shot, well captured
mmills3080
great capture and interesting history!
jchanders
Lovely spot of a hard life! Well captured indeed!
Christopher E...
wonderful shot here, excellent composition
Anthony Pierce replied
Thanks. I actually sold a 20×30 print of this to my mom. She has it hanging in her living room.
DApixara
One of my all time favorite photos!
Anthony Pierce replied
Wow! That’s very kind of you. Thanks!
Jan Timmons
Beautiful color and composition. Love the textures of the wood and leaves that you captured, as well as the history.
MountainHawk
Nice shot of the Ogle place! I have always liked the Ogle place. Gotta go back now that I gotta better camera and take some pics. So much great hiking in the Roaring Fork area! Really like your touches on this.
Scott d'Almeida
fabulous;
KcranmerArt
Amazing to think about how they lived, how hard it must have been…but than again they didn’t know any different! Beautiful find Anthony!
James Corley
Fantastic!
Virginia N. Fred
Wonderful story, and great image
kathy s gillen...
Fantastic capture
JeffeeArt4u
Hello Anthony, this is a very nice piece of work along with very informative history. My husband was the history nut and maybe kin to these Ogles by marriage. The Ogles and Gourleys both gave up land to make the Smoky Mountain National Park. My Father-in-Law Leon Gourley lived in Cades Cove.
Anthony Pierce replied
That’s cool. I love the park but hate that people had to leave to create it.
JeffeeArt4u
Charlie Ogle was Jim’s Grandpa and Jim worked on his farm which was here in West Millers Cove, and his grandpa, Jim said, as a dying request asked him to take care of his grandmother and the farm until the day he married. We built our home on part of this land after Leon had a heart attack at 54. Relatives all live as neighbors now.