Pioneer
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Old Wagon thats seen better times but still appreciated, Located in the Visitor Center area of Cades Cove, GSMNP
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Taken at Pioneer Park, Griffith, NSW, Australia. This shed was full of old farming equipment, very interesting.
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The sun is beginning to filter through the trees, and the dogwoods are in full bloom here on this beautiful spring morn at the John Oliver Place………….Split-rail fences require much more timber than other types of fences, and so are not common in areas where wood is scarce or expensive. However, they are very simple in their construction, and can be assembled with few tools even on hard or rocky ground. They also can be built without using any nails or other hardware; such hardware was often scarce in frontier locations…….American chestnut was the tree of choice until wire fencing became cheaper and the chestnut blight eliminated this tree…….. The distance between either the zigs or the zags was 16½ feet or one rod. A landowner could then count the zigs or the zags along the side and end of his field and determine the number of square rods in a field which in turn told him how many acres the field contained. One hundred sixty square rods is one acre, so a field ten rods times sixteen rods was an acre.
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The corn crib at the Tipton place is an example of a double pen corn crib, larger than average, and having a driveway through the center. This not only provided a way to conveniently unload the wagon but allowed for extra air to flow through the crib. The hewn log sides were left with open spaces to allow air to circulate through the corn, both allowing it to dry initially and helping it to stay dry…The roofing is known as shackes, which are wooden shingles usually split from leftover parts of logs ….Behind the crib is the edge of a cantalever barn unique to this part of the country……This shot was taken on Cades Cove Loop Road in The Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
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At The Mountain Farm Museum,most of the structures were built in the late 19th century and were moved here in the 1950s. The Davis-Queen House offers a rare chance to view a log house built from chestnut wood before the chestnut blight decimated the American Chestnut in our forests during the 1930s and early 1940s. The museum is adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center,On the NC side of Hwy.441 in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The Davis/Queen house was originally located on Thomas Divide north of Bryson City along Indian Creek. Beginning about 1900, it was built by John E. Davis over a period of a couple years. The house was constructed from American chestnut trees. About 1917 the Davis’ sold their farm to a neighboring family, Joe Thad Queens, who owned the house at the time the land was purchased for inclusion in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It has been described as “the finest example of the large log house in the park.” Davis was a master craftsman who built the house with the aid of his two boys. He “matched” the log walls by splitting a tree in half and using the resulting timbers on opposite sides of the structure. In addition to other duties, his sons, ages 8 and 4, respectively, collected stones for the chimney using a sled and oxen. It is the only log house in the Smokies with a decorative shingle pattern underneath the eaves. Poplar and Chestnut were usually used for the logs in the cabin due how they resist rot and decay.Oak was usually used for the shakes as it split, stright and thin, easier.
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This is an example of a Double Pen Drive Through Barn, they were a little more prevalent than the cantilever barn in East Tennessee. This design provided an out of the weather area to fork hay into the loft, stalls for the livestock, and a dry place for equipment. Two men could work each side from a wagon in the middle when putting up hay, cutting the time used in dealing with the hay. This barn is located in the Cable Mill Visitor Center Area of Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountain National Park
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This church was organized in the 1820s with services held in a log building until the building of this structure. The Methodists were not as numerous as the dominant Baptists here, and often depended on a circuit riding preacher. Another church, Hopewell Methodist, is marked only by a cemetery today was across the cove. The Civil War caused division in the church so several started going to Hopewell. In 1902 this structure and its furnishings were reportedly the work of one man. J. D. McCampbell, a blacksmith and carpenter, built it in 115 days of $115. Afterward, he became its preacher for many years. The two doors are a result of the plans used to build this structure. In some churches ladies and children entered through the left door, and men through the right one. A divider separated the two groups, causing frustration among courting couples. They are no indication they practiced this separation here.
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The church house in the early days not only served as a place of worship but of a gathering place for the community. It was a place to meet and get caught up on the area happenings or for singles to meet possible mates. In many areas it would serve as a school a few months a year. In 1902 this structure and its furnishings were reportedly the work of one man. J. D. McCampbell, a blacksmith and carpenter, built it in 115 days of $115. Afterward, he became its preacher for many years. It is located in the Cades Cove area of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park There are not many records of the early Methodist Church. The Cades Cove Methodist Church is included among those of the Holston Conference’s Little River Circuit in 1830.The cemetery contains at least 100 graves and is the second oldest church cemetery in the Cove. Methodists were not as dominant as Baptists in the Cove, but they served the community well.
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The Methodist Church, Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA A steeple points one to the heavens, symbol of the dwelling place of Christ. Through city streets, across the valleys and lakes, through the countryside far and wide, the steeple declares Christ. I lift up my eyes to the hills / where does my help come from? / My help comes from the LORD, / the Maker of heaven and earth. / Psalm 121:1-2 NIV Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed {the food,} and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples {gave them} to the crowds… / Matthew 14:19 NAS We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven; / Lamentations 3:41 The spire originated in the twelfth century, but America’s steeples are decended from those designed by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666. The fire began early on September 2, not far from the famed London Bridge, and spread quickly, overtaking everything in its path. Over four days the conflagration destroyed most of the city. Many famous buildings, including St. Paul’s Cathedral and 86 other churches (not to mention more than 13,000 homes), were destroyed, and the city smoldered for months. The task of rebuilding many of these houses of worship fell to Wren, a young architect. Noted for his Oxford background as a mathematician and astronomer, Wren was commissioned by King Charles II to rebuild St. Paul’s Cathedral. In his design of St. Paul’s and about 50 other city churches he included steeples, leading men and women to turn their gaze toward God in his heavens. Wren’s simple, straightforward treatment of the steeple quickly caught on. They were increasingly found on American churches, often with bells built in the tops. These bells served dual purposes, calling worshipers to services and summoning citizens for special announcements or emergencies. Early American steeples were usually made of wood. Today most congregations have replaced their wooden steeples, which were showing the effects of time and weather, with beautifully designed steeples made from lightweight fiberglass or metal. In terms of size and shape, steeples are as varied as the church buildings they accentuate. But even in their variety, steeples still serve their traditional purpose—to guide people’s eyes toward the heavens, to God himself. Other works in the Cade’s Cove Collection: > Companion Piece http://images-1.redbubble.com/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/product:laminated-print/size:small/view:preview/1223691-1-the-tipton-place.jpg!:http://www.redbubble.com/products/configure/4160293
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A sepia version of a previous image The Enloe-Floyd Barn is located at The Mountain Farm Museum on U.S. 441 adjacent to the national park’s Oconaluftee Visitor Center, two miles north of Cherokee. The site is open year-round The barn is the only museum building original to the site. It was part of the Joseph Enloe farm. The Enloe house, built in the 1880s, stood on the site now occupied by the Oconaluftee Visitor Center. In 1917 the Enloes sold their farm to the Floyds, a neighboring family. When the museum opened, the barn was initially left on its original site, about 30 yards from the present-day Visitor Center. It was moved to its current location within the museum complex in 1960. Fifty feet wide and 60 feet long with a “shotgun” opening down the middle, the structure has several stalls and storage areas on each side of the long “hallway.” Upstairs there is a vast hayloft large enough to store a 2,500 square foot suburban home. Thought to be a “Drover’s barn” it is similar to the cantilevered barn in having a large, overhanging, frame loft for hay storage In this case, the loft is supported by log piers. This structure is much bigger than most barns, for it served as a “cattle hotel”, a place where farmers could stable their herds for a night as they drove them off the mountains to market
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Even though most pioneer cabins didn’t have gutters this may seem like a new idea. In 1066 the Norman invasion instigated a massive rebuilding of English towns and churches. Grand buildings have stone roofs and parapets, which lead to gutters and gargoyles to throw the water clear. These early settlers had probably seen gutters of one sort or nother by the time they got here but most evidently didn’t feel the need for them. The gutter here is on The Queen-Davis House,GSMNP. Built by John E. Davis who was a master craftsman who built the house with the aid of his two boys. Noah Ogle had used a similar type troth to run water from a spring to his back porch. These were a group of people that used what they had around them to make places to live and tools to work with. The food they had was buy trading their crafts or hunting/growing. They by far weren’t a unlearned class of people but very able to adapt to what ever change life threw at them.
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BYGONE ERA IMAGE COLLECTION Re-enactment at Jamestown Settlement, Virginia. Jamestown is a part of the Colonial National Historic Park, administered by the National Park Service. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please don’t copy or download this image. My photos may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission. If you want this photograph, I would be honored for you to purchase it. ©2008 Patricia Montgomery | Bucks Mountain Galleries All rights reserved.
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This pioneer home is the next-door neighbor to “Home Sweet Home”. It’s a wonderful place to browse and imagine what life would be like in the 1700’s.
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This is Henry Whitehead’s smokehouse. Being constructed well, like his cabin, it has stood the test of time. During a tornado that ripped thru Cades Cove in the latter part of 1970s, a pine tree was uprooted and thrown on top of the smokehouse. It crushed the roof but the sturdy walls held their ground
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This sunflower was past its prime but still standing strong near Dillon, Montana.
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My cesspool of knowledge about little red wagons has been spent on the previous images of this marvelous mode of transporting. For millenniums people have used the wagon in some form or another for transporting of goods and people. It wasn’t until the last couple centuries a self powered version came on the scene. The idea caught on quickly form the 1st steam powered buggies to all the wide range of transportation we have today. The improvements of the millenniums are nothing to compare with the rapid increase of technology in the past 200 years. I often wonder to what extent these rapid improvements in technology have degraded our ways of life. Are out morals and since of family what they use to be? Have our standards and codes of conduct decreased from what they were when wagons and sleds were the preferred mode of moving goods form place to place…..This wagon is sitting on the Tipton Place in Cades Cove ,Great Smoky Mountain NP
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Though beautiful in their ruggedness, rock walls such as these are a great attraction to rattlesnakes. Enjoy them, but be careful! : ) At Pioneer Mountain Ranch, Dillon, MT.
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Russ Cottage, / Dongara / Western Australia
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SLC UT
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Top 10 placement in a challenge in Rural Canada Coast to Coast Pre 1960’s – June 5, 2009 / Featured in Canadian Historical & Pioneer Sites – May 31, 2009 / Featured in Rural Canada Coast to Coast Pre 1960’s – January 19, 2009 This old schoolhouse (original building of Seabright School) is located in the Beausejour Pioneer Village Museum, Beausejour, Manitoba. Photo taken with Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT Entering this old schoolhouse with all the accessories and desks brought back all the memories of my own schoolhouse from 1952+. This is the exact scene I lived with for many years of my schooling as a child. Remember the photo “I Walked The Line”, where I mentioned I walked to school many times, well this is what school looked like. All schools back then looked the same inside, same designs, same window treatments, everything is just like my school days. I loved school so much I became a teaching assistant for 17 years, retiring in 2003 after a very worthwhile job with my kids, the greatest kids anyone could teach. Nothing is more rewarding in my books than working with kids. /
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Original bell from the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church, which was built in 1904 by the pioneers of the Brokenhead District , Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada. The church had been used until 1979 when it was closed due to disrepair. It now stands in the Beausejour Pioneer Village Museum grounds in Beausejour, Manitoba.
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The King on the Prairie / taken Feb 05-09 temp is +5 celius today water every where / Cabri Saskatchewan ,The orange elevator is an old wood one built / some time around the 50’s has been updated with a new distribution head / the one on the right was moved away from the tracks a number of years ago / it was a horse and wagon style / the one in the centre built some time in around 1920 / the pioneer one is still used today
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What catches your eye in this photo is really not what the photo is about…the little ‘sticks (for lack of a better word!)’ are just for creating shape as the leather around them sets and hardens. These sections of leather are called ‘hondas’ and are, in essence, what make a reata (throw rope for roping) able to function properly. Randy Rieman is the creator of this particular set of hondas (and many others!). He was taught by the best, Bill Dorrance (click to read more about Bill and his fascinating life), years ago, and now carries the torch of braiding reatas.
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